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Policy Actions Have Consequences on the Street

New York City police officers come to work each day with one goal in mind: to make every block in every neighborhood safe for every New Yorker. We’ve made tremendous gains over the past two decades, but the job is far from finished.

NYC’s real public safety experts are people like you. You see what’s happening on your block, and you hear every day about crime and disorder occurring around the city. You know that the "Safest Big City in America" doesn't feel that way in every neighborhood.

The only public safety and policing agenda that should matter is yours — but all too often, that’s not the agenda being discussed on the steps of City Hall. The result is bad public safety policy that normalizes criminal behavior and deprives police officers on the street of the tools we need to protect you, your family and your neighbors.

This public safety tracker will highlight notable crime incidents in context, alongside current crime trends and the broader policy discussion. You can use this information to make sure your voice is heard: speak out about conditions in your neighborhood, contact your elected officials and tell them they need to make safe streets a priority.

A Harlem man was shot to death during a fight inside his bedroom early Saturday, officials said.

Cops responding to a report of a violent dispute at an apartment on W. 129th St. — part of the St. Nicholas Houses — just before 1 a.m. found John Mingo, 49, sprawled out on his bedroom floor, with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest.

A man trying to break up a fight at a Brooklyn subway station was stabbed by one of the men involved in the dispute, police say.

The good Samaritan was stabbed in the arm and rushed to an area hospital after the attack at the Smith and 9th Street station in Gowanus at around 4: 15 p.m. Thursday, according to the NYPD. The victim is expected to be OK.

A man was shot on a Queens subway platform Friday afternoon after he got into an argument with two men, police said.

The 21-year-old victim, described as a Hispanic male, was on a northbound F train in Forest Hills just before noon when the argument spilled onto the platform at 75th Avenue and Queens Boulevard and one of the suspects pulled out a gun, cops said.

Cali, 53, was shot six times in the chest by a gunman in a blue pickup truck on Hilltop Terrace near Four Corners Road in Todt Hill about 9:15 p.m. Medics took him to Staten Island University Hospital, where he died.

wo Texas men were stabbed after a fight over a woman during a boozy night on the town in Manhattan early Saturday, officials said.

The men, 41 and 23 — part of a construction crew working in New Jersey — got into an argument with two other men at a Midtown bar near E. 35th St. and Fifth Ave., officials said. Both sides were vying for the attention of a woman, a source with knowledge of the case said.

An attacker who threw coffee at a drunken man inside a Queens bodega, then clobbered him with a brick, is still being sought, cops said Sunday.

Police released photos on Sunday of the hoodie-wearing assailant, who got into an argument with the 49-year-old victim inside the Woodside Grocery on 61st St. at Woodside Ave. at about 11:45 p.m. on Jan. 25.

A Brooklyn man holding a bouquet of flowers was fatally shot by a bike-riding gunman as the victim climbed into an Uber — and cops are probing whether it was an act of jealous rage, police sources said Wednesday.

Jorge Vazquez, 26, had just gotten into the back seat of a dark SUV idling outside of Home Frite, the Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant where he worked, around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday when a hooded bicyclist pedaled up and pulled open the door of the vehicle, cops said.

A crazed subway rider yelled “you white bitch” as he slashed a random Manhattan woman’s cheek with a razor blade in a Midtown station — and was then held down by fellow straphangers until police arrived, authorities said Monday.

The 24-year-old woman was on a southbound E train at the East 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue station around 6 p.m Saturday when Harlens Hernandez, 25, approached, yelled at her and cut her left cheek, cops said.

A wheelchair-bound double-amputee was tortured with a hot butter knife by a pair of home invaders — one posing as a NYCHA worker — who demanded to know where he kept cash in his Manhattan apartment, police sources said Thursday.

The 73-year-old victim was watching TV with his home attendant inside his apartment at NYCHA’s Vladeck Houses on the Lower East Side when there was a knock at the door around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

A security guard chased down a crook with an astounding 86 prior arrests after the thief ripped off a Brooklyn Gap, threatened the guard with a razor and then hid in a nearby subway station, where cops cuffed him.

Suspect Brian Colter, 47, was charged with robbery, grand larceny, weapons possession, resisting arrest, menacing and trespassing after his 6:45 p.m. Tuesday arrest at the Jay St. station in Downtown Brooklyn.

A Harlem woman courageously fought off a would-be rapist who police say may be responsible for an earlier sex attack in the same area — which cops dragged their feet investigating, police sources said Sunday.

In the most recent assault, the suspect — described as a 16-year-old male — tailed the victim home from the West 145th Street subway station on the 1 line at around 6 a.m. Saturday, then grabbed her and tried to undress her on the steps of her apartment building off Broadway, cops and sources said.

A group of club-wielding robbers pummeled a drug-trade rival in a caught-on-video beatdown in Brooklyn, cop sources said Monday night.

The 50-year-old victim was sitting on the stoop of a home on Pulaski St. near Malcolm X. Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 6:45 p.m. Feb. 2 when several men in hoodies approached him, police said.

Two hateful, N-word hurling partygoers beat a construction worker when he blocked them from taking a shortcut through his Hell’s Kitchen work site, authorities said Monday.

Klevis Vulaj — who’s also under investigation in a 2017 assault on a transgender woman — and Veton Balidemaj left a club on W. 47th St. and 11th Ave. around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, and tried to cut through the construction site a block away when they confronted the worker, police sources said.

A crew of callous kids mugged a woman in a Park Slope subway station, police said Friday.

The tiny terrors — three girls between 12 and 15-years-old and an 11-year-old boy — stormed up to the 22-year-old victim as she waited on the 9th St. R train platform about 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 30, cops said.

A 42-year-old man was found shot to death on the roof of a Brooklyn housing project, officials said Tuesday.

Police were called to an apartment building on Lexington Ave. near Marcy Ave. in Bedford Stuyvesant — part of the Louis Armstrong Houses — about 1:40 p.m. Monday by a 911 caller who said somebody was sleeping on the roof.

A pregnant real estate agent was dragged screaming from her Queens apartment and stabbed to death in the vestibule of her building early Sunday as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child, witnesses and police sources said.

The killer targeted the 35-year-old woman’s stomach, according to the building super, who said she watched surveillance video footage that captured the murder.

A man was shot and killed just outside a church in Brooklyn, cops said.

Police received a 911 call for an assault shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Weirfield Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick — just feet from the Church of God of Prophecy, police said.

A man was stabbed in an apparent road-rage attack after honking his horn at a stopped car in Brooklyn on Thursday night, police said.

The 53-year-old man was driving his blue Volvo on 65th Street near West 5th Street in Bensonhurst at about 5:30 p.m. when he honked at a red Infiniti that was stopped near the intersection, authorities said.

A good Samaritan stopped a stranger from raping a Fordham University student on a Bronx street this week, police said Thursday.

The 22-year-old victim was walking near East 189th Street and Belmont Avenue — roughly a half-mile from the Jesuit university — around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday when the creep approached and put her in a chokehold, cops said.

A 58-year-old man knifed his wife to death and wounded his teenage daughter Tuesday during a bloody clash inside a Queens apartment, according to cops.

The dad allegedly stabbed his 45-year-old wife repeatedly in the chest and body at their apartment on 69th Ave. near 195th Lane in Fresh Meadows about 3:50 p.m. He also lunged at his 18-year-old daughter, slicing her in the wrists and hands, police said.

A crazed man wielding a hammer walked into a Brooklyn seafood buffet restaurant late Tuesday afternoon and, in an unprovoked attack, beat three men in the head, one fatally, police said.

Fufai Pun, 34, a chef at the Seaport Buffet in Sheepshead Bay, was pronounced dead at a hospital, while the 60-year-old owner of the eatery and a 50-year-old manager were listed in critical condition Tuesday night.

A stranger broke into an East Village woman’s apartment, raped her, robbed her and left her bound with duct tape in a horrific attack, police and sources said Sunday.

After spending Friday night at the Knitting Factory, a Brooklyn concert venue, the 20-year-old woman was fast asleep in her East 14th Street apartment when she said she was jolted awake around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, cops and sources said.

A teenager was stabbed in front of a pizza shop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Thursday afternoon — but collapsed before he could open the door to get help and died, police sources said.

The 17-year-old victim was left sprawled out on a sidewalk with a bloody pink knife near his body after the attack around 1:30 p.m. at West 100th Street and Broadway in front of Cheesy Pizza, cops said.

Leslie Wilson has spent all of his 68 years in the Bronx and never been robbed — until now.

But on Jan. 2, Wilson, who works as a super, was jumped in his hallway as he unlocked the door to his apartment n E. 169th St. near Tinton Ave. by three masked men in a frightening attack caught on video.

A 44-year-old Brooklyn man died after he was assaulted inside his apartment, police said Monday.

Roshee Williams was attacked inside his home in the Farragut Houses on Sands St. near Navy St. near the Brooklyn Navy Yard about 10:40 a.m. Friday. Police found him semiconscious with trauma to the head.

A man was shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing development early Tuesday — marking the city’s first slaying of 2019, cops said.

The 29-year-old victim was discovered around 4:30 a.m. with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso in the fifth-floor hallway of a Stanley Avenue building within East New York’s Louis H. Pink Houses, police said.

A Washington Heights woman who lived in fear of her ex-boyfriend became one of the first murder victims of 2019 when he stabbed her to death and then flung himself to his death from her apartment terrace, police sources said.

Yuberkis Paulino, 50, was discovered dead on the floor of her bedroom early Tuesday, in what cops are investigating as a murder-suicide, per sources and neighbors.

NEW YORK (CBS NewYork)— Police are on the hunt for a man with several identifying tattoos they say raped a woman in Queens over the weekend.

Investigators say the suspect, identified by the NYPD as 24-year-old George Persaud, was brandishing an imitation firearm when he approached the 40-year-old victim in South Ozone Park between midnight and 6 a.m. on Sunday.

Four men wanted in a robbery beat down were caught on surveillance video jumping Spider-Man-style between subway cars onto a train station platform — but they’re the furthest thing from crime-fighting heroes.

The four — in their late teens or early 20s — are wanted in a Dec. 19 robbery on the Sutter Ave. L train platform in Brownsville, Brooklyn, said police.

A stranger whacked a good Samaritan in the head with a metal pipe when she tried to break up a spat he was having with another Manhattan straphanger, cops said Thursday.

The 28-year-old victim was on the northbound N/Q/R platform of the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday when she attempted to intervene in an argument between two men, cops said.

A woman was sexually assaulted and punched in the face on a Queens street early Tuesday, police said.

The 56-year-old woman was walking near 165th Street and Sanford Avenue in Murray Hill about 2 a.m. when a man came up to her, punched her multiple times in the face and sexually assaulted her, police said.

NEW YORK (CBS New York) — An NYPD officer is being hailed as a hero after his quick actions saved a man from bleeding to death when an attempted robbery turned violent at an upper Manhattan pizza shop.

Authorities on Tuesday arrested a hate-filled parolee they say beat an off-duty FDNY firefighter to death with a baseball bat during a road rage incident in Brooklyn.

Suspect Joseph Desmond — a reputed member of the Latin Kings who was just released from prison seven months ago after serving four years for an anti-gay attack in Queens — was apprehended with a woman at the Circle Inn on Victory Plaza hotel in South Amboy N.J., early Tuesday, officials said.

A man shot near his Brooklyn home pointed out his killer before he died, police said Wednesday.

Mohammed Grine, 23, identified 23-year-old James Raccagna as the alleged assailant, who was still on the scene of the fatal shooting when cops arrived at 20th Ave. near Shore Parkway Sunday night. Police arrested him at that time, authorities said Wednesday.

Four women and a man were shot and wounded in a hail of bullets early Saturday during a brawl outside a troubled Queens club, officials said.

The victims, all between 23 and 35 years old, were leaving the Rose Lounge on 130th St. in Richmond Hill about 3:46 a.m. when a gunman opened fire, according to Assistant Chief David Barrere,the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South.

A woman and young girl were wounded in the crossfire of a wild shootout on a Bronx street Wednesday as police chased and shot a masked gunman carrying a red backpack filled with suspected drugs, police said.

The suspect had just ripped off a group of drug dealers in the lobby of an apartment building on W. 183rd St. near Loring Place North in University Heights around 6:10 p.m. and was running away, his gun blazing, when officers on patrol spotted him, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said.

Police on Saturday released a photo of two men wanted in connection to a Brooklyn shooting that killed one and injured another.

The men — who were photographed near the crime scene — are wanted for questioning in the slaying Tuesday of Jahlil Grant, 21, who was walking with another man at the Roosevelt Houses, near the corner of Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Pulaski St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Hate was in full force when a pack of teens assaulted a 16-year-old Jewish teen while allegedly screaming, "Kill the Jew!"

David Paltielov is still hospitalized with bruises, lacerations and contusions to the head after being stomped on and beaten by dozens of boys in Queens, N.Y. Two teens, ages 17 and 18 were arrested on Thursday in relation to the beating, but the New York City Police Department didn't charge them with a hate crime. Both were charged with first-degree felony gang assault and second-degree felony assault.

A famished man who flipped out at a Brooklyn deli clerk for not making his a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich fast enough is now a wanted felon — and to add insult to injury, he wanted it served on a cinnamon raisin bagel.

Surveillance footage released by police Monday shows the 55-year-old victim standing near the turnstile inside the Hunts Point Avenue train station around 6:30 a.m. Nov. 25 when the assailant approaches.

A scammer in Times Square stole $1,200 from a tourist and left her with a pocket full of newspaper instead of bills, the NYPD said.

The man posed as a visitor from another country on Nov. 23 and said he had been robbed of $300, then asked the 23-year-old victim if she could hold his money, the NYPD said. He said he kept his money an orange bandana.

A 24-year-old man whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag outside a Yonkers bank last month was slain in a Bronx housing project after a love triangle took a deadly turn, officials said Tuesday.

Investigators believe Deshawn Cortez-Seaborn, of Virginia, was knifed to death inside a fourth-floor apartment in the Edenwald Houses on Schieflin Ave. near E. 229th St. on Nov. 19, police sources said.

A killer shot a Brooklyn man twice in the head in his third-floor apartment Monday night, police said.

Police found Theodore Smith, 29, just before 7:30 p.m. in his apartment in on Park Ave. and Broadway in the Sumner Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Medics took him to Woodhull Medical Center, but he couldn’t be saved.

ELMHURST, QUEENS — Police took a Queens high school student into custody after he allegedly stabbed another student late Thursday morning, the NYPD said. The 17-year-old stabbed the other male student in the chest around 11:54 a.m. in front of the Pan American International High School in Elmhurst, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

The victim, 19, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition and is expected to survive, the spokeswoman said said.

A man was busted Friday in the unhinged beat-down of an off-duty rookie cop in Brooklyn, police said.

Aleksejs Saveljev, 32, of Manhattan Beach, faces multiple counts of assault in the unprovoked Nov. 8 attack on the officer, who was walking his Golden Retriever along Williams Court and E. 11th St. in Sheepshead Bay.

A man was shot to death after in Brooklyn — possibly in retaliation for an earlier clash over a waitress at a East New York nightspot, police and witnesses said Saturday.

Kevin Virgo, 27, was spotted arguing with at least three men outside the Atlantic Boat Club on Atlantic Ave. and Grand Ave. shortly before he was shot in the chest and thigh at 10:30 p.m. Friday, cops said.

An off-duty cop was shot when two groups opened fire on each other on a Bronx street early Tuesday, police said.

The 33-year-old officer, who is assigned to the 43rd Precinct, was driving another cop home when the bullets began flying on E. 137th St. near Brook Ave. in Mott Haven around 12:05 a.m.,authorities said.

A man has died and his 5-year-old son was wounded when the two were shot in a staircase inside a Bronx apartment building, police said.

The 29-year-old father, Jaquan Millien, had just picked up his son from school, and the two went to visit someone in the Butler Houses in Claremont Village. They were in the staircase on the fifth floor when someone opened fire.

A father was wounded and his son was killed in a stabbing after they got into an argument with another man, police said.

The 56-year-old father and his 35-year-old son, identified by police as Hason Correa, of the Bronx, allegedly beat up another man after getting into an argument with him on 152nd Street, near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, in Harlem on Friday night, the NYPD said.

A teenager has been arrested on a hate crime charge after surveillance video showed him beating an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn Monday.

Surveillance cameras showed the victim running into a dry cleaners as the black teenager chased after him and beat the victim with a tree branch, according to police and witnesses. The branch broke on the victim's back.

An 11-year-old girl was raped in the bathroom in broad daylight of a Bronx park by another teen, police said.

The girl was near Hilton White Park in Morrisania on Oct. 14 around 11 a.m. when she met with the assailant, who is believed to be between 14 and 16 years old, the NYPD said. Cops later said the girl told them she has seen the alleged rapist in the neighborhood before, but doesn't really know who he is.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly groped a woman, then fondled himself on the subway in Brooklyn last week.

The victim, a 25-year-old woman, was on the southbound F train in Park Slope during the evening rush last Friday when she said the man started rubbing her upper thigh, according to police. When she moved away from him, she saw that he was masturbating inside his pants.

A heartless purse snatcher snagged a 57-year-old woman’s handbag as she walked down a rain-swept Brooklyn street — pulling his defiant victim to the ground as they struggled over the purse, stunning video shows.

Police on Tuesday released the surveillance video in the hopes that someone recognizes the crook responsible for the Oct. 11 mugging.

Police in Manhattan are on the hunt for a trio of violent subway robbers who cops say attacked and beat a woman inside a Chelsea station for money.

The 30-year-old woman was approached by the three suspects inside the 23rd Street C train subway station around 10 Monday night, according to the NYPD. As she was walking into the station, one of them kicked her in her back.

City police are investigating after they said a local rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a lounge in Queens on Sunday morning.

"I just see chairs all over the floor and then I just see him on the floor, and then I didn't see anything until he starting gasping and blood just was going everywhere," said bartender Tieshajah Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting.

A 64-year-old man was slashed on a bus in Queens after an argument with another passenger over one accidentally bumping the other, police said.

The man got into the argument with a woman on a northbound Q3 bus near Farmers and Merrick boulevards in St. Albans shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 3. After, when the bus stopped, a man got on and slashed the 64-year-old in the head and face, police said.

A homeless man stabbed a Queens straphanger in the chest during rush hour Wednesday after the victim tried to break up an argument on a subway platform, police sources said.

The suspect, who remains at large, was arguing with a woman on the northbound F train platform at the 75th Ave. station in Forest Hills at 5 p.m., when a 49-year-old good Samaritan intervened, sources said.

The bigot who randomly attacked two gay men in Williamsburg — hurling a slur at them and then knocking them unconscious— is an Ernst & Young consultant who was arrested Wednesday, according to police and the company.

Brandon McNamara, 25, turned himself in at the Seventh Precinct — home to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force — around 8 a.m. with his lawyer, police said.

NEW YORK — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighbourhood nursery for new mothers and their children, authorities said.

All of the victims in the attack, which happened before 4 a.m., were hospitalized but expected to survive.

NEW YORK — A man shot and killed a woman who is believed to be his ex-girlfriend and wounded the woman’s new boyfriend before turning the gun on himself inside a Queens apartment Friday morning, police said.

A 911 call from a neighbor led police to the residence on 77th Street, where the bodies of Regan Smith, 31, and the suspected shooter, 47-year-old Nelson Giron, were recovered around 7 a.m. The second man, identified as a 43-year-old off-duty Yonkers police officer, was found with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and what was believed to be two stab wounds, police said. He was transported to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he underwent surgery and was expected to survive.

This is the suspected burglar who leaped from the roof of a proposed Billionaires’ Row homeless shelter to the penthouse of a Paul Manafort-linked banker and ransacked the pad — the second apartment he cleaned out in a matter of hours, cops said Wednesday.

Police are looking for the person who robbed an 8-year-old boy of his cellphone in the Bronx on Monday.

The suspect followed the boy, whose mother says he was coming home from summer camp, into the vestibule of an apartment building in the area of St. Ann's Avenue and East 139th Street just before 6 p.m. and tried to snatch his cellphone from his hands, police said.

A 15-year-old boy shot and wounded by cops in Far Rockaway after he opened fire at an event honoring gun-violence victims was charged with attempted murder and weapons violations Saturday, authorities said.

Cops were breaking up a large disorderly group at a barbecue on Redfern Ave. near Nameoke Ave. late Friday when the 15-year-old, whose name wasn’t released because of his age, began firing off rounds, NYPD Chief David Barrere said.

Authorities are looking for a woman who allegedly attacked a 26-year-old subway rider when she sat down next to her earlier this month, repeatedly nudging her and then yanking her hair and punching her multiple times in the head.

The 26-year-old woman grabbed a seat next to the suspect on a rush-hour northbound No. 1 train in the Bronx Aug. 1, and cops say the older woman got annoyed. First she just nudged the 26-year-old rider, over and over again.

A quick-thinking woman managed to snap cell phone pictures of a perv she says masturbated in front of her on a Queens street — and cops have released the images.

The 47-year-old woman was sitting in her car near 65th Ave. and 174th St. in Fresh Meadows when a man started masturbating in front of her about 3:40 a.m. Monday. She drove off to seek help at a nearby gas station and the creep followed her there, according to police.

Two women — one a nail salon employee and one a customer—face charges in connection with a wild brawl that broke out a Brooklyn shop last week, allegedly over a botched eyebrow job, according to authorities and a published report.

Video posted to Facebook by another customer who happened to be inside New Red Apple Nails on East Flatbush's Nostrand Avenue when the chaos broke out around 9:30 p.m. Friday shows the worker wielding a broom and repeatedly whacking the customer in the back and shoulder area.

The stabbing happened just before 10 a.m. on 59th Street. Police closed off part of the street, focusing their investigation on a minivan that sources say was the livery cab in which the victim and three suspects got into some sort of dispute.

A 27 year-old male was gunned down in front of a Buddhist temple in the Bronx Tuesday night, according to cops.

The unidentified victim was found by police in front of the Chùa Thập Phương Temple on Andrews Ave N, in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx, with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and head according to cops and witnesses from the scene.

Gotham echoed with gunfire Saturday night into Sunday as 16 people were shot in 10 incidents over a span of less than seven hours — with one person dead and three others clinging to life after the overnight violence.

The carnage kicked off at 9:43 p.m. in the Bronx when a man wearing a red bandanna in a black sedan squeezed off six rounds at the corner of West 166th Street and Nelson Avenue, nailing an 18-year-old in the shoulder and a 20-year-old in the eye and abdomen, according to police. The eye-shot victim checked himself into Lincoln Hospital, police said.

Dramatic video shows the moment a man pulled a gun and opened fire, striking two teens this week in broad daylight in Harlem.

In the 17-second cellphone video — which was taken by a New York state parole officer sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car and obtained by The Post — the red-shorts-wearing gunman can be seen running toward two boys before two shots ring out.

Two city Parks Department employees were arrested on Sunday for allegedly beating up a man who was urinating in a Bronx park, police sources said.

The victim was allegedly peeing in Jerome Park, which is next to the Bronx High School of Science in Bedford Park, at about 1:30 p.m. when the two workers confronted him, according to a law-enforcement source.

A straphanger with a man-bun stabbed a stranger in the mouth with a pen during a robbery in a Harlem train station, cops said.

The assailant approached his 36-year-old victim on a Bronx-bound 6 train and followed him onto the platform at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station around 10 p.m. on June 28, according to police.

A man and a woman were fatally struck Thursday after he dragged her, screaming, in front of a Brooklyn subway train in what police believed was a murder-suicide, sources said.

Anthony Collins, 54, of Jamaica, Queens, grabbed his girlfriend, Cyntha Raiser, 42, of Brooklyn — who was struggling and shouting, “No, no, no” — at the Broadway Junction station at about 4:45 p.m. and pulled her along as he leaped in front of a Manhattan-bound C train, the sources said.

A Brooklyn man who rushed to help a woman who'd been attacked by another driver in a road rage incident was himself attacked by the aggressive driver, who allegedly hit him with a van, breaking the good Samaritan's legs.

Warren Thompson says he was getting pizza in Williamsburg Tuesday night when he saw a van sideswipe an older woman's car on Driggs and North Fifth. The woman got out of her car, and the van driver also got out, yelling and waving around brass knuckles, he said.

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help finding a woman accused of punching a 66-year-old man in the face following an argument on the 1 train in Washington Heights Monday, police say.

According to the NYPD, the suspect and victim were arguing on board the 1 train heading Uptown at approximately 6 p.m. on Monday. Once the train pulled into the station at 191st Street, the woman punched the man in the face and fled the scene.

Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly screamed profanities at an NYPD traffic agent who ticketed him for double parking, then followed her in his SUV and chucked a bottle with clear liquid out the window, hitting her in the back, last week.

The 55-year-old traffic agent had given the man a ticket on Steinway Street in Queens shortly before 5 p.m. July 20. Authorities say the suspect walked up to her, cursed at her and then got into the passenger side of his vehicle. A woman was driving.

Authorities have uncovered a massive narcotics mill in the Bronx — and seized $7.5 million in heroin and fentanyl, including some labeled “Death” and “Kill.”

Investigators found the haul during a court-authorized search of the illicit packaging plant in the Soundview neighborhood, according to a statement from the city’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

A Queens woman was strangled to death inside her home near Kennedy Airport — and discovered by her concerned brothers, who checked on her after she wasn’t answering phone calls, police and relatives said.

Cops found Samantha Stewart just after 9 p.m. Tuesday at her Jamaica home on 145th Road near 167th Street — with trauma to her neck and head, cops said.

An off-duty MTA worker was shot by a stray bullet while riding the subway Tuesday evening, according to police.

Carlo Thorne, 47, was riding a southbound 3 train when a fight broke out between two groups inside the subway car as it pulled into the station at Rutland Road and East 98th Street in Brooklyn at approximately 6:20pm, according to cops.

Police on Sunday released surveillance footage of several suspects wanted in connection to a shooting that injured three people — including two innocent bystanders — on the busy Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn.

The gunfire erupted on Fulton Street near the intersection of Gallatin Place at about 1:45 p.m. on Friday, police said.

A Bonanno crime family associate was critically wounded in an attempted hit steps away from his lavish Bronx home Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Salvatore “Sally Daz” Zottola was shot multiple times — including once in the head and three times in the torso — when someone inside a dark Nissan sedan opened fire as he was walking to his car on Tierney Place near Longstreet Avenue in the Locust Point section of the borough around 6:40 a.m., sources said.

A 16-year-old boy was killed when a gunman shot him in the head in broad daylight as the teen walked with his girlfriend on a tree-lined Brooklyn block Wednesday, police said.

The victim was walking with his sweetheart on Macon St. near Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when he got into a war of words with the gunman who opened fire around 2 p.m., according to authorities.

A person was killed and four were injured in a chaotic incident on Staten Island Tuesday morning that involved a car ramming into a home in the St. George neighborhood.

“It looks like there was someone chasing someone, fired some shots at him, and the car ended up crashing into someone, and there was one person that was dead on arrival over there,” NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said at an unrelated press conference. “We’ve made four arrests and recovered a gun.”

After fighting off a would-be rapist, the victim ran into her attacker a second time while trying to escape the Bronx park where she was jogging, police say.

The 35-year-old woman was jogging through a wooded section of Bronx River Forest Park at around 8 a.m. Monday when a stranger came up behind her, according to NYPD. The attacker tried to cover her mouth with his hand as he pulled her backwards, but she was able to fight him off and call out for help before running further into the park to escape.

A homeless man went on a drunken rampage and attacked three women in the East Village — knocking out on one victim’s tooth with a bike lock, law enforcement sources said Sunday.

The man went off the rails at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday, when he cut off a 20-year-old woman on his bicycle on E. 11th Street near Second Avenue — then allegedly shoved her to the ground and pummeled her in the face with his fist, cops said.

Staten Island saw 10 overdoses — three of which were fatal — over the Fourth of July holiday period, officials said.

The borough’s district attorney said the overdoses took place over four days from July 4 though 7 — with one victim found in a Burger King bathroom and another in the restroom at the Staten Island Ferry terminal.

An NYPD detective was shot in the leg by a career criminal Friday morning as he tried to serve a warrant for a domestic robbery involving a gun in Brooklyn, police sources said.

The wounded detective, identified by sources as Brooklyn North Warrant Squad member Miguel Soto, and two other cops in an unmarked car spotted suspect Kelvin Stichel, 33, going the opposite way on Decatur St. near Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 6:30 a.m.

A bandanna-clad shooter was caught on video blasting another man in the back in a crowded apartment building hallway, police said Thursday.

The shooter, wearing a light-blue bandanna tight around his head, can be seen lurking in the stairwell of a building on Kings Highway near E. 98th St. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, as a group of people pass at about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday.

A 27-year-old man was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street corner Thursday night, marking just the second murder this year in an East New York police precinct that saw triple-digit homicide numbers in the 1990s.

The victim was shot on the corner of Pitkin and Montauk Aves. at about 9:30 p.m., after getting into an argument with someone in a white luxury sedan, cops said.

A 58-year-old man was stabbed to death outside his own home in the St. Albans section of Queens on Thursday morning, police say.

The victim, later identified as Mario Cesar, suffered multiple stab wounds to the body. He was found unresponsive in the driveway of his home on 116 Avenue when NYPD arrived on the scene at around 9:30 a.m.

A baby reveal party turned bad when a 34-year-old man was fatally shot in a Bronx park Sunday morning.

Matthew Cruz was shot in the head and back on a paved path inside Rainey Park near Beck St. and Intervale Ave. around 7:35 a.m., police said. Medics rushed Cruz to Lincoln Hospital but he could not be saved.

Family members said Cruz was attending the party earlier in the night when he continued the celebration in the park.

A deranged husband hacked off his pregnant wife’s right arm below her biceps, and cut off two of the fingers of her left hand at their Brooklyn home on Thursday, police sources said.

The hubby, identified by sources as Yong Lu, 35, used a steak knife to chop off the arm and sever two fingers on her other limb in their apartment on 55th St. near Fifth Ave. in Sunset Park around 12:20 p.m., cops said.

The gang-related stabbing of a teenager on the Bronx River Parkway has been linked to the stabbing death of 15-year-old Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Wednesday.

Shea said the incidents are connected beyond the fact that the same gang -- the Trinitarios -- was involved in both stabbings, but would not specify further. He did not talk about a motive or give additional details

A member of the same bloodthirsty gang that murdered a teenager outside a Bronx bodega and knifed another on the Bronx River Parkway has been charged with stabbing and robbing a man on the Upper East Side, cops said.

Missael Alvarez, 16, who cops describe as a member of the Trinitarios street gang, was busted Thursday night on robbery charges.

Homicides are down so far this year on Staten Island, except for one neighborhood where two were reported in less than two weeks.

Last month, investigators responded to a shooting and a stabbing in Stapleton, within blocks of each other. One outside of a bar on a public street and the other inside a luxury apartment building, respectively.

The NYPD is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a man sought for questioning in connection with a fist fight at a beach-side restaurant, which police say left a 62-year-old woman with injuries.

The fight was reported June 9 at about 12:30 a.m., when an unidentified man involved in a physical altercation with another man inadvertently struck a person in the face with a chair, according to a post to the 122nd precinct's Twitter account.

Public Safety Policy Discussion

The district attorneys of Manhattan and the Bronx have agreed to clear all summonses for petty offenses — so-called quality of life crimes — from their books after Queens Councilman Rory Lancman urged all city prosecutors abandon prosecuting “broken windows” offenses.

Lancman, the head of the council’s justice system committee and a candidate for Queens DA, wrote a letter to all five city district attorney offices last week expressing his concern that warrants on summonses had started to increase after a steep drop following the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act.

Just five hours after the ball dropped in Times Square, a masked shooter in East New York pulled out a gun and blasted 29-year-old Tyleek White as he stood in the hallway of the Stanley Avenue Pink Houses.

It was the city’s first murder of 2019, the end of an unprecedented four-month streak without a single homicide in the notoriously bloody 75th Precinct.

Homicides in the city have surged by 37% so far in 2019, and the NYPD said on Monday it will be sending more cops to some neighborhoods to turn the tide.

There have been 52 murders in the city year-to-date compared with 38 in the same period last year, officials said. A spike in the month of February, which had 24 homicides compared with 16 in February last year, helped drive up the statistics.

NYPD brass is dragging its feet on a pair of City Council proposals to protect the children of incarcerated parents or caregivers.

Spurred in part by the arrest of Jazmine Headley, a 23-year-old Brooklyn mom whose infant was torn from her arms by cops at a Human Resources Administration office in December, one bill would require the NYPD to implement a child sensitive arrest policy, including the delay of arrests while kids are around whenever possible. The legislation would also require officers to ask if the suspect being arrested is responsible for any children and to train cops on the effect of trauma on kids.

A coalition of 88 police reform groups are making a hard push to scrap a decades-old state law that keeps officer discipline records secret.

The groups — many of them working under the banner of Communities United for Police Reform — will send a letter Tuesday to the state legislature calling for a series of police reforms, including the repeal of 50-a — a 1976 statute that limits public access to police and firefighters' disciplinary records.

The New York City Council's Committee on Public Safety convened on Thursday to discuss a sweeping package of bills to improve police accountability for officer misconduct, sparking impassioned testimonies from relatives of victims and accusations of apathy by police officials.

"I don't think the NYPD understands what they're doing to people," said Victor Dempsey, the brother of Delrawn Small, who was killed by off-duty officer Wayne Isaacs. "Not only are they murdering civilians--they're demolishing the trust people have in them."

After rolling out a feature on Google Maps and Waze to warn users of upcoming police speed traps and DWI checkpoints, Google has run afoul of the NYPD, who have sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the features be removed.

"The NYPD has become aware that the Waze Mobile application...currently permits the public to report DWI checkpoints throughout New York City and map these locations," wrote Ann Prunty, the NYPD's acting deputy commissioner for legal matters. "Accordingly, we demand that Google LLC, upon receipt of this letter, immediately remove this function from the Waze application."

In January, a sleeping rider was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver on New York City’s subway. A month before that, a police officer fended off five homeless men who attacked him on a train platform. And on Sunday afternoon, a man wasfatally shot at a subway station in Queens, the first recorded murder on the system in six months.

The subway has come a long way since the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s when violence was rampant and riders felt constant dread. The system has become very safe, with just one murder on the subway last year compared with 26 in 1990.

A courageous undercover NYPD detective sealed the deal on a big firearms bust in The Bronx — posing as a buyer for a delivery of 16 handguns and high-capacity “drum magazines” from Florida, officials said.

The two traffickers met with the undercover at an apartment on Tinton Avenue last August, and laid out six firearms and six magazines on a bed, according to an indictment announced Thursday.

The NYPD has never had a female top cop — but Police Commissioner James O’Neill could see a woman taking the reins once his tenure comes to an end.

“We have a lot of really great women leaders,” O’Neill told The Post on Monday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview in his 1 Police Plaza office. “They could do the job just as well as any man could do it.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office planned — then abruptly canceled — a police raid on a South Bronx park that has been at thecenter of Post storiesabout public drug use and littered syringes, a report said Monday.

Politico New Yorkreportedthat City Hall had been planning to step up enforcement at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven starting Monday following the series of articles, but the sweep was scrapped when the news site reported on the plan.

The city is turning to a modern fix for an old violence problem at homeless shelters.

The Department of Homeless Services is soliciting proposals for body cameras for the 800 peace officers who patrol the shelters — and aims to equip the cameras with Bluetooth technology that'd sync with Tasers carried by the officers.

A wild police beatdown that ended with two men bruised and bloodied has sparked an NYPD investigation into whether the cops used excessive force — with the mayor demanding answers about a “troubling” clash caught on video.

Cops were seen on video striking the two men with batons multiple times, and then piling onto one who ended up on the ground, kicking and hitting him. The footage came from a bystander’s cell phone.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday calledvideo of NYPD cops using batons against two men in Upper Manhattan“really troubling” — and a police source said the incident could get at least one officer arrested.

De Blasio said “very preliminary” information suggested “that the individuals involved were creating a real problem for neighbors” and may have resisted arrest.

About 300 more people came forward to report they were raped last year in New York City than the previous year, a sharp increase that officials theorize was fueled in part by the #MeToo movement.

While other violent crimes like murder and assault decreased or remained relatively flat, the police said reported rapes increased 22.4 percent to 1,795 in 2018, up from 1,467 from 2017. A broader category of sex crimes that includes groping and forcible touching also jumped 8.4 percent to 3,873 in 2018, from 3,573 in 2017, according to police statistics.

The NYPD knows that legal weed is coming, but it’s top enforcer has fears about underage smoking and dangerous marijuana grow houses.

“We have to make sure that we’re able to address people that are under 21 that are using marijuana to make sure there are sanctions for that and also to keep young people safe,” NYPD commissioner James O’Neill said Sunday on radio host John Catsimatidis’ AM 970 show, The Cats Roundtable.

Junkies have turned an upper Manhattan subway station into a squalid drug den — brazenly shooting up on the platform and littering the place with their used syringes.

Outraged neighborhood residents say heroin addicts have all but taken over the West 181st Street station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, and complain that officials are ignoring the latest symptom of the city’sspiraling opioid crisis.

Recidivist criminals committed nearly one of every five New York City murders last year — leading Mayor Bill de Blasio to express “real concerns about the parole system” on Thursday.

NYPD statistics show that parolees and probationers were responsible for 19 percent of the 289 murders recorded during 2018, marking the second year in a row that percentage increased, officials revealed during a news conference at the 67th Precinct station house in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Despite increases in rapes and subway crime, the NYPD says 2018 was the safest year on record in New York City.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the city's 289 murders were the fewest in nearly 70 years. He also reported a drop in burglaries, robberies and shootings, which all saw a dramatic decrease from the previous year.

O'Neill credited officers on the street and community involvement for the promising statistics.

NEW YORK — Roving gangs of pickpockets from South America were part of the reason crime spiked in the city's transportation system last year, a top police official said Thursday.

The NYPD recorded a 3.8 percent increase in overall transit crimes in 2018, police statistics show. Chief of Transit Edward Delatorre said the rise was driven by grand larcenies, which also increased citywide last year.

New York’s Muslim community has joined the ranks of minority groups who have organized their own security-based patrols.

Decked out with insignia identical to that of New York City police patrol cars (except for the name), the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is watching over parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn that have large Muslim communities.

NEW YORK (WABC) --At least three homicides in New York City made for a violent end to 2018 and a violent start to 2019.

New York City Police officers responded to an evening robbery-homicide in Greenwich Village, a fatal stabbing in Far Rockaway during the final hour of 2018 and another fatal shooting in a housing complex in Brooklyn before the sun was up Jan. 1, 2019.

Despite the killings, the New York Police Department set records for lowering crime in 2018.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview Sunday, career criminal Marc Malone admitted to The Post that he targeted elderly victim Lyubov Faynshteyn’s Coney Island public-housing building — because he heard its front-door lock was busted.

Former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday morning that the state will be “opening up Pandora’s box” if marijuana is legalized.

“At this particular time, I still strongly oppose it. I think there are too many unanswered questions,” Bratton told 970 AM host John Catsimatidis on his morning radio show, “The Cats Roundtable.” “We still don’t have effective capabilities in law enforcement to deal with the issue of driving while impaired by the use of marijuana. It is as addictive as any other drug.”

As New York moves toward legalizing recreational marijuana, the instances of motorists driving while stoned is likely to surge, if the past experience of weed-legal states is any indicator.

In Colorado, where pot sales began in 2014, 69 percent of pot users said they had driven while high at least once in the past year and 27 percent said they drove stoned almost daily, according to preliminary survey results released by that state’s transportation department in April.

The NYPD is ramping up security for the city’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square with more than 1,200 cameras — some installed on high-flying drones — to protect the nearly 2 million expected revelers, police officials said Friday.

One of the high-tech gadgets will be tethered to the top of a building to prevent potential attacks on the wild party below, Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at a press conference.

The city plans to hire six workers just to clean up the fields of syringes littering drug-infested South Bronx parks amid the failure of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s program to get junkies to toss their used needles in special bins.

Asked about The Post’s front-page story on the syringe-dropping plague, the Parks Department said Friday that the new workers — to be hired in January at an annual cost of about $350,000 in salaries and benefits — will be “dedicated to routinely canvassing and cleaning high-volume areas” favored by addicts.

The city’s top cop said Sunday that the NYPD knowslegal weed isn’t far off for the Big Apple— but he’s concerned about how the drug might affect drivers.

“The NYPD knows it’s coming,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill told radio host John Catsimatidis on his morning AM 970 show The Cats Roundtable. “And a few of those things are, what are we going to do about the people that are under the age of 21?”

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have junkies toss their used syringes into special receptacles has failed to clean up drug-infested parks, and the bins are serving more as suggestion boxes — spreading the message that the city is OK with them shooting up there.

Official statistics obtained by The Post from the first six months of de Blasio’s controversial program show that parks in the Bronx are still littered with dangerous hypodermic needles, with nearly 60,000 found on the ground compared with just 7,000 in Hizzoner’s 44 locked containers.

The borough is on track to end the year with fewer than 100 homicides for the first time in nearly 50 years, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez announced today.

So far, there have been just 97 homicides in 2018, a record low since “modern” record-keeping began in 1970 — and a stark departure from the 800 reported slayings at the height of crack cocaine violence in 1992, his office said.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday said it’s the NYPD’s fault that his office cut loose the homeless men caught on camera attacking a cop in a Manhattan subway station — because they were only busted for illegally sleeping on the platform, which no longer gets prosecuted under a 2016 accord.

Vance spokesman Danny Frost said prosecutors didn’t know the vagrants “were suspected of anything other than sleeping on the subway” when they got hauled into court Monday night — even though video of the attack, first reported by The Post, prompted multiple news reports earlier in the day.

A New York City police officer is receiving praise for using nonlethal force to fend off five menacing, visibly drunk men on a subway platform, according to authorities and video of the incident.

A video of the confrontation Sunday taped by a bystander and posted on social media shows Officer Syed Ali shouting repeatedly: "Stand back. I don't want to hurt you," as the men approached him in unison. The officer brandished his baton, but does not appear to have reached for his service revolver.

NEW YORK — Bigotry against Jewish people has fueled a spike in hate crimes in New York City in 2018, police statistics show. The NYPD has recorded 352 hate crimes this year as of Sunday, up about 6 percent from 331 in the same time last year.

Jews have been targeted in more than half those incidents. There have been 183 anti-Semitic hate crimes so far this year, a 22 percent increase from last year and a 38.6 percent spike from around the same time in 2016, NYPD figures show.

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) -- The innocent woman hospitalized when police officers opened fire on a suspect in the Bronx is speaking out.

Forty-five-year-old Irene Perez was critically injured by NYPD Officer Juan Gomez's stray bullet during a shootout. It happened December 7 in University Heights as Gomez and his partner chased an armed robbery suspect, 36-year-old Edwin Castillo.

New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it.

A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s culture-specific security groups.

New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it.

A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s culture-specific security groups.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Wednesday that he’s following through on plans to wipe out more than 1,400 warrants in misdemeanor weed possession cases, as well as over two dozen past convictions.

“The majority of these warrants were issued to black and Latino New Yorkers, and many are remnants of stop-and-frisk policies that harmed many of our communities and that the city has since abandoned,” Gonzalez said in court.

A client went berserk at a Manhattan welfare office Tuesday, attacking a city peace officer and resisting staff’s request to calm down by howling, “This ain’t f-----g Brooklyn!” — a reference to another recent brawl in a welfare office that ended with NYPD cops snatching a baby from his mother’s arms.

A peace officer suffered a broken wrist in the Tuesday fracas — and cops, when called, showed up but declined to get involved, according to an internal report of the altercation obtained by the Daily News.

An NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau review concluded that police officers did nothing wrong when they dragged a one-year-old boy away from his mother at a Brooklyn public service assistance center earlier this month.

According to Politico, the Internal Affairs Bureau found no wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved in the brutal arrest of Jazmine Headley, which went viral earlier this month, and the officers are not expected to face any discipline or change of status.

New York's highest court last week declared that even heavily redacted police disciplinary records can be hidden from public view. It was a dark day for anyone who cares about holding the minority of cops who abuse their authority accountable — which should be everyone.

The dispute centers around a four-decade-old law referred to as 50-a, which limits public access to police and firefighters' disciplinary records.

The head of the union that represents two Human Resources Administration officers suspended after the video-recorded wrestling of a baby from its mother demanded on Monday that Mayor Bill de Blasio reinstate them and apologize for making them his “sacrificial lambs.”

Teamsters Local 237 president Gregory Floyd has blasted Hizzoner repeatedly in the wake of the Dec. 7 arrest of Jazmine Headley while she was cradling her 1-year-old son in a Brooklyn public benefits office — both for the mayor’s slow public response and for his singling out of HRA officers for rebuke.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Data from the NYPD shows that injuries to school safety officers have seen a decline in consecutive years citywide, down from 121 reported cases in 2016 to only 28 through three quarters of 2018.

While the 2018 statistics only feature 75 percent of the expected data for 2018, a drastic dip in overall injuries is evident.

However, the fourth quarter of the year has been known to see an uptick in overall injuries, according to NYPD data.

A year ago this week, a man detonated a pipe bomb during rush hour inside the passageway connecting the Times Square and Port Authority subway stations. It was the first attempted suicide terrorist attack in NYC since September 11th, although only two people, including the bomber, were hurt. Coinciding with the anniversary, the NYPD rolled out a new security pilot program inside Port Authority: a singular subway metal detector, manned by heavily-armed officers.

The metal detector was installed on Wednesday, the anniversary of Akayed Ullah's pipe bomb attack. As with the NYPD's bag search program, the department says subway riders are chosen randomly for the enhanced screening. NYPD Transit tweeted about it, along with the intimidating photo up above, "Our officers working with our @PANYNJ Police partners this morning at the Port Authority Bus Terminal / 42nd Street subway station in our constant effort to keep travelers safe." Twitter users immediately mocked it, calling it a "nuisance" and a "huge show of security theater."

New York — Law enforcement authorities say a flurry of bomb threats sent electronically across the country are "NOT CREDIBLE," including those in New York City. Multiple reports Thursday said various states, businesses, medical offices and schools were the target of the alleged threats. Dozens of local police departments from coast to coast said they were investigating, but nothing had been found.

"Searches have been conducted and NO DEVICES have been found," NYPD said. "We'll respond to each call regarding these emails to conduct a search but we wanted to share this information so the credibility of these threats can be assessed as likely NOT CREDIBLE."

Pedro Hernandez, who became a bail reform darling after he spent a year at Rikers Island because he was unable to post the money needed for his freedom, was arrested Wednesday for driving with a suspended license, police said.

It is the third time he’s been arrested for driving without a valid license in the past two years, sources said.

Cops stopped Hernandez, 19, shortly after noon after he was seen driving a BMW with no front license plate on Bronxwood Ave. near E. 213th St. in Williamsbridge. The car’s rear license plate didn’t match the vehicle and may have been stolen, police sources said. When cops ran his driver’s license, they realized it was suspended.

Police brass can no longer bar officers accused of misconduct from earning overtime, the Daily News has learned.

An arbitration board has reversed the NYPD’s order that cops who have been stripped of their guns and shields and assigned to desk duty as they face internal disciplinary action are not eligible for overtime unless no one else is available to do their assignment.

Charges will be dropped against the mother whose 1-year-old son was forcefully yanked away by New York Police Department officers last week, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement on Tuesday.

Jazmine Headley, 23, was arrested Friday at a Brooklyn social services office and faced four charges, including resisting arrest and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

The head of the NYPD’s sergeants’ union on Sunday blasted the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights charity for bailing out hundreds of accused criminals — many with histories of violence.

“It’s lunacy,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said on AM 970’s John Catsimatidis’ “The Cats Roundtable” radio show. “They are beginning to develop a history of posting bail for individuals who are not returning to court, who have a history of crimes.”

So argues the New York Civil Liberties Union, which in a Dec. 7 statement blasts the forthcoming NYPD deployment of the flying surveillance bots as "a serious threat to privacy." The 14 police drones, which the New York Times reports had been acquired by city police in June, are ostensibly to be used for tasks like keeping an eye on large crowds or hostage situations. However, critics see the deployment as the start of a very slippery, privacy-eroding slope.

After all, large crowds of people often gather together to lawfully protest something like, say, police brutality. Or, as the NYPD specifically notes as a drone-appropriate example (according to the NYCLU), the Women's March.

Even though the territories held by extremist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS have been eroded, the groups' global propaganda reach is still proving to be an effective recruitment tool, inspiring uncomplicated but deadly terror attacks on U.S. soil, according to the head of the New York Police Department's Intelligence and Counterterrorism bureaus.

"[T]he unintended consequence of our effectively smashing ISIS and al-Qaeda – the pieces scattered," said Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller in a recent interview with Intelligence Matters host and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell.

The NYPD is buzzing about it’s new fleet of drones — but not all of the buzz is good.

The department announced Tuesday that it has acquired 14 drones that will be soon be deployed across the city during emergencies, officials said.

The NYPD’s Technical Assistance and Response Unit will be utilizing the drones to assist in rescue missions, inaccessible crime scenes and hostage situations.

“As the largest municipal police department in the United States, the NYPD must always be willing to leverage the benefits of new and always-improving technology,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said in a statement. “Our new (unmanned aircraft system) program is part of this evolution.”

The NYPD enjoyed a November to remember as monthly crime figures indicated that 2018 could set a record low for crimes in a calendar year.

The safest November in modern NYPD history ended last week with a 5% overall decrease in crime compared with November 2017. Police said the drop was spurred by a 15.8% drop in burglaries and an 11.8% plunge in robberies.

“The NYPD has once again done what a lot of people said was impossible,” said Mayor de Blasio. “(Last year) was a record year for lower crime — and the NYPD is starting to surpass that record.”

Critics of the NYPD’s handling of disciplinary cases want a panel reviewing the system to give the task to an outside agency.

But moving NYPD administrative trials to the Office of Trials and Hearings — which conducts hearings for all city workers except police officers and teachers — would face multiple hurdles, including either a legal change, or deputizing the agency’s judge to preside over NYPD trials.

NEW YORK (WABC) --Bodega owners met with NYPD officials Monday to discuss new safety options and came away pleased with the result.

Among the things members of United Bodegas of America (UBA) asked for were panic buttons that would allow store owners to contact police immediately in the event of an crime; and video cameras with direct, live links to nearby police stations.

They also asked for NYPD officials to notify bodega owners of gang-related activity in their neighborhoods; more frequent neighborhood patrols; and basic training in how to handle situations that turn violent.

Women generally experience more forms of harassment than men and it’s costing us: Data from a new study shows that, on average, women pay more to get around New York City than men do due to safety reasons. Looks like there’s a Pink Tax on transportation, too.

A new study from the New York University Rudin Center for Transportation suggests that the median extra transportation cost per month for women, due to safety reasons, is between $26 to $50.

The close of the third quarter saw homicides in New York City spike by six percent over the same period last year, despite a relatively safe summer and a small drop in overall serious crime from 2017, according to the latest NYPD statistics.

Homicides through Sept. 30 totaled 228 compared to 215 in the same period for 2017, a year that ended with 292 homicide and manslaughter cases — a record low for killings in the modern era of police record keeping.

— NY Times: “Here in New York, a range of changes in the criminal justice system will touch every corner of the city — from those caught smoking marijuana on the street to neighborhoods that may soon host new jails.”

— NY Times: “Nearly two decades ago, in a Manhattan subway station, a mentally ill man shoved Kendra Webdale, a promising young writer, to her death in front of an oncoming N train. It was a horrific crime that shocked the city and the nation, highlighting deep flaws in the care of seriously mentally ill people and spurring a wave of state laws that use court orders to move them into outpatient treatment.”

— NY Daily News: “Outraged community leaders on Monday demanded action after five people overdosed during the weekend on the same Brooklyn streetcorner where more than 100 users have fallen victim to a crippling K2 epidemic.”

— NY Post: “A Bronx teen who became the poster boy for citywide bail reform could have his police misconduct lawsuit against the city tossed as soon as this week — because no lawyer wants to touch it.”

— New York Post: Erase your pot past — by going to church! Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Friday announced a first-of-its-kind program that gives people with low-level marijuana convictions the opportunity to have them expunged from their records forever.

— NY Times: “Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is expected to announce next week that his office will vacate misdemeanor marijuana warrants dating to 1978. In Brooklyn, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is going further, offering people with low-level convictions for marijuana possession the chance to have them vacated and the underlying charges dismissed.”

— New York Post: One teen stabbed another with a hair pick, an enraged mom pulled a knife on a school safety agent, and 12 weapons were seized at security checkpoints on a violent first day of classes in the Big Apple on Wednesday, officials and sources said.

— AM NY: “New York City’s long hot summer of 2018 turned out to be cooler when it came to serious crime. July and August of 2018 were the safest summer months in modern city history in terms of homicides and shootings, officials said Tuesday.”

— New York Post: “Several videos of people berating and taunting our police officers have recently appeared on social media. For the public, viewing this ignorant spite might come as a shock. But for...”

— New York Post: “Mayor de Blasio on Monday told loudmouths subjecting NYPD officers to brazen bouts of nasty verbal abuse to “knock it off,’’ but police insiders dismissed the support as “too little...”

— CBS News: “First on 'CBS This Morning,' a new report released Friday reveals how some of America's police academies are addressing racial bias in the wake of controversies over shootings and the use of force.”

— New York Daily News: “An NYPD sergeant was left stammering as a man began cursing him out inside his Harlem police precinct, according to a new viral video showcasing the continued disrespect of police.”

— New York Post: “A self-described “schizophrenic” threw a brick at his Washington Heights neighbor this week and lunged at her with a knife, yet was back on the street less than 24 hours after cops picked him up.”

— New York Law Journal: “A Manhattan judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release a trove of documents from the case of Ramarley Graham, who was shot and killed in 2012 by an officer who has since left the department.”

— New York Post: "Dozens of widows of NYPD officers slain in the line of duty joined the department’s largest union Tuesday to demand that the government fix a loophole that lets paroled cop-killers back on the streets."

— NBC New York: “"There has to be a culture of consequence," said Mayor de Blasio. "There has to be a realization that anyone who thinks that they can get away with having an illegal gun in New York City, that that is not going to work."

— Wall Street Journal: Politicians and advocates in major cities are scrutinizing police departments for the way they label and track suspected gang members, saying the methods lack oversight and unfairly expose minorities to the criminal justice system.

Police departments in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago use databases that include thousands of people, mostly minorities, some of whom haven’t been arrested for a crime.

More than a half-dozen Trinitarios gang members went berserk in a city jail on Saturday, smashing windows and toppling furniture after one of them learned a friend would be moved to another facility, sources told The Post.

The mini-riot — on the 800-bed Vernon C. Bain Center jail barge — was so violent that a correction officer tried to break it up using pepper spray, but wound up fleeing for her life, the sources said.

THREE WEEKS INTO his new job as commanding officer of Manhattan’s 20th precinct, Captain Timothy J. Malin stared at a map on his computer screen, puzzled. It showed his jurisdiction carved up by streets and parks, with the southern edge encased in an ominous shade of red.

For decades, the New York Police Department has used real-time statistics to chart spikes in violence and calibrate police activity across the city. This map, however, displayed not crime data but something new in the arsenal of police metrics: public approval. The crimson on Malin’s map indicated that some residents in his precinct, the Upper West Side—one of New York City’s wealthiest and safest neighborhoods—reported feeling little trust in his officers. It was Malin’s job to figure out why. “I look at that, and I am like, ‘Okay? What’s causing this?’” he said.

The NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office are locked in a bitter standoff over what information cops will turn over to prosecutors, and when and how that handoff happens.

The DA wants systematic electronic access to police disciplinary records and investigative files, including witness reports, to understand cases’ strengths and weaknesses, drop charges when appropriate, and, when the law requires, share evidence with defense attorneys. The police say they’re already being perfectly responsive, and claim Vance is overreaching dangerously by trying to get an unfiltered pipeline into the most sensitive files.

An unarmed black man holding a cellphone, Stephon Clark, is fatally shot in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento and residents ask whether the officers only saw race when pulling their triggers 20 times.

Saheed Vassell, a mentally ill black man waving a pistol-shaped metal car part at pedestrians, is gunned down by police officers on a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the outrage focuses on whether deep-seated prejudices fueled the quick use of deadly force.

While explicit bias remains part of the fabric of life in the United States, elected leaders and chiefs of police have increasingly focused on what is often called implicit bias, inherently unintentional yet more pervasive.

Golden — a Brooklyn Republican whose political shenanigans at the end of session in Albany last month helped deep-six widely supported plans to reup, much less expand, life-saving speed cameras on city streets — succumbed to political pressure Wednesday, finally urging Senate leader John Flanagan to convene a special session to right the wrong before the cams go dark July 25

An 8 percent jump in homicides citywide is troubling; more worrisome is that it’s driven by a nearly 65 percent spike in the Bronx. We trust the NYPD to turn the numbers around — but can only hope it will have the full support of local politicians.

To be fair, the percentage increase is so big mostly because New York’s Finest have brought crime so far down over the last quarter-century: The 51 homicides in the Bronx in the first six months of the year is up just 20 over the same period in 2017.

Mayor de Blasio attended a police-statistics briefing Tuesday detailing the city’s gang-driven murder spike, and invited two fellow pols — who blindsided the NYPD’s top cop with gripes about crime in their districts.

Just as Police Commissioner James O’Neill opened up to media questions about his department’s latest stats — including an 8.1 percent rise in slayings — de Blasio interrupted to turn the mic over to his guests.

NY Post: “New York started following San Francisco’s lead in 2016 when Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced his office would no longer be prosecuting offenses such as public urination. Both cities have accepted that they’ll continue to have a large number of people living on their streets and inevitably using their sidewalks as a toilet.”

The Crime Report: “New York City will spend $1.8 million this year to roll out “mobile trauma units” — buses filled with counselors and peacekeepers — to crime scenes throughout the city in an effort to ease tensions in communities after acts of gun violence”

NY Daily News: “A training curriculum could turn witnesses to crimes into proactive good Samaritans, a Bronx City Council member proposed Monday in the wake of allegations that bodega workers didn’t do enough to help a teen who was dragged from their store and fatally stabbed.”

NY Daily News: “Gang violence is ugly in any form, but the killing of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was an unspeakably savage act. The images of him being dragged from a store and then repeatedly stabbed and hacked are the definition of horror. The depraved indifference to this boy’s life is made all the worse in that the child who the gang was destroying wasn’t even their intended target.”

NY Post: “The Bronx teen who became a cause célèbre for bail reform has been arrested — for the 12th time — for driving offenses, sources told The Post on Monday. Pedro Hernandez was nabbed Sunday night at Jerome Avenue and 170th Street in the Bronx for weaving in and out of traffic, sources said.”

NY Post: “NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill called on Bronx residents to help clear the borough’s streets of bloodthirsty gangbangers — like the Trinitarios thugs behind the “unspeakable” murder of young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz.”

NY Daily News: “Let there be no misunderstanding, now that young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz lies in the earth, the blood let from his neck like an animal: The slaughter of a promising 15-year-old Bronx boy known as Junior at the hands of criminal gang members who mistook him for their intended target cannot be left to melt in the heat of passions over the proper reach of the criminal justice system into the lives of young men of color.”

NY Post: “One of the most scrutinized police forces in America — the NYPD — is facing yet more oversight: An outside panel is launching a 120-day review of the department’s discipline policies. This time, for a change, it’s warranted.”

WSJ: “The New York Police Department said Tuesday that its Special Victims Division will carry out all acquaintance and domestic sex-crime investigations even after an immediate arrest is made, no longer relying on precinct detectives to gather evidence and complete such investigations. The department announced the change in its response to a highly critical report by New York City’s Department of Investigation in March that accused top brass of failing to adequately staff the division.

NY Daily News: “One tragedy of the recently ended state legislative session is that New York has again failed to take action on a basic penal reform that should have been fixed decades ago: the indefensible practice of jailing people accused of minor crimes simply because they lack a few hundred dollars to make bail.”

NY Post: “The NYPD released a response to a scathing Inspector General’s report on Tuesday, stating that they were working to “strengthen and bolster” the Special Victim’s Division while taking issue with some the IGs findings.”

AM New York: “Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday signed seven bills intended to broaden access to antidotes that reverse drug overdoses and teach medics, schoolchildren and the public more about opioids. The law covers schools, homeless shelters, needle exchanges and other places where the city’s anti-opioid message can reach drug users, and prospective drug users.”

NY Daily News: “A Bronx teen whose jail horror story became the backdrop for a debate on reforming the city’s bail system will likely have a traffic case against him dismissed. Pedro Hernandez, 18, was picked up in Washington Heights earlier this month and brought to Manhattan Criminal Court after he made an illegal U-turn while driving on a suspended license, authorities said.”

NY Daily News: “A Bronx teen whose jail horror story became the backdrop for a debate on reforming the city’s bail system will likely have a traffic case against him dismissed. Pedro Hernandez, 18, was picked up in Washington Heights earlier this month and brought to Manhattan Criminal Court after he made an illegal U-turn while driving on a suspended license, authorities said.”

NY Daily News: “The city released thousands of pages of incident reports Friday to state overseers, documenting everything from assaults to drug dealing to arrests inside homeless shelters. The release followed a Daily News expose in May documenting how the city Department of Homeless Services had stopped reporting hundreds of arrests for a wide variety of criminal activity inside shelters across the city. That included not reporting assaults that didn’t result in visible injury.

NY Daily News: “The city released thousands of pages of incident reports Friday to state overseers, documenting everything from assaults to drug dealing to arrests inside homeless shelters. The release followed a Daily News expose in May documenting how the city Department of Homeless Services had stopped reporting hundreds of arrests for a wide variety of criminal activity inside shelters across the city. That included not reporting assaults that didn’t result in visible injury.

Staten Island Advance: “A neighborhood watch group promises to transform a plagued Staten Island park into a scene from the war-torn Middle East if officials don't crack down on the blatant lawlessness.”

City Limits: “Official stop numbers have plummeted since a groundbreaking federal lawsuit in 2013 ruled the NYPD’s stop and frisk tactics unconstitutional. But those statistics only reflect the most serious type of stop. Other encounters which don’t meet the standard of a high-level stop take place without leaving a trace in the public record. While the NYPD calls such stops “low-level,” advocates say they can still leave residents feeling intimidated and targeted, such as when the officer approached Dister and his friend.”

NY Post: “Gangbangers peddle drugs in plain sight, hustlers resell cheap booze on the street corner — 50 cents will get you a capful — and prostitutes lead johns to the boarded-up husk of what used to be a Taco Bell. This is Tompkinsville Park on Staten Island’s North Shore in 2018 and, to area residents and merchants caught in its heroin- and K2-infested vortex, this is a battlefield.”

Wall Street Journal: “New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new marijuana policy was met with a backlash from the Manhattan district attorney and advocates, who said the change wouldn’t do enough to diminish racial disparities among those who face punishment for the low-level crime.”

ABC 7 News: “New York City unveiled a major new plan concerning marijuana enforcement Tuesday. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill discussed the new policy, which for some people means they won't be arrested if they are caught with pot. It comes after critics accused the prior policy of targeting minorities and for being too harsh.

NY Daily News: “Never mind the “gang database” alarmism. That the NYPD keeps a list of members of groups thought to be involved in street crime — the better to prevent violence and catch perpetrators — should comfort New Yorkers.

ABC 7 News: “The NYPD is rolling out its plan to counter the typical summer spike in crime. "Summer All Out" is a program the NYPD launched four years ago. It calls for putting more police officers in the streets during the hottest months of the year.”

NY Times: “By a slim margin, the New York City Council on Tuesday approved two bills requiring changes to day-to-day interactions between police officers and those they encounter on the street, measures that drew strong opposition from both criminal justice reform groups and the city’s largest officers’ union.”

NY Post: “The NYPD slammed a City Council bill that encourages citizens to sue the city when cops stop them from recording police activity or seize their recording equipment. The proposal, sponsored by Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), would create a city law recognizing people’s right to record police activity and would allow them to sue for damages and attorney’s fees for interference.”

NY Times: “A new law enacted in June gave New York City police officers the discretion to issue a civil summons, rather than a criminal one, for offenses such as public urination and public drinking. It appears that many officers have opted to do neither.”

NY Times: “After years of public debate and months of negotiations, New York City began directing its police officers on Tuesday to issue civil tickets rather than criminal summonses for petty offenses such as public drinking and public urination.”

A Harlem man was shot to death during a fight inside his bedroom early Saturday, officials said.

Cops responding to a report of a violent dispute at an apartment on W. 129th St. — part of the St. Nicholas Houses — just before 1 a.m. found John Mingo, 49, sprawled out on his bedroom floor, with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest.

A man trying to break up a fight at a Brooklyn subway station was stabbed by one of the men involved in the dispute, police say.

The good Samaritan was stabbed in the arm and rushed to an area hospital after the attack at the Smith and 9th Street station in Gowanus at around 4: 15 p.m. Thursday, according to the NYPD. The victim is expected to be OK.

A man was shot on a Queens subway platform Friday afternoon after he got into an argument with two men, police said.

The 21-year-old victim, described as a Hispanic male, was on a northbound F train in Forest Hills just before noon when the argument spilled onto the platform at 75th Avenue and Queens Boulevard and one of the suspects pulled out a gun, cops said.

Cali, 53, was shot six times in the chest by a gunman in a blue pickup truck on Hilltop Terrace near Four Corners Road in Todt Hill about 9:15 p.m. Medics took him to Staten Island University Hospital, where he died.

wo Texas men were stabbed after a fight over a woman during a boozy night on the town in Manhattan early Saturday, officials said.

The men, 41 and 23 — part of a construction crew working in New Jersey — got into an argument with two other men at a Midtown bar near E. 35th St. and Fifth Ave., officials said. Both sides were vying for the attention of a woman, a source with knowledge of the case said.

An attacker who threw coffee at a drunken man inside a Queens bodega, then clobbered him with a brick, is still being sought, cops said Sunday.

Police released photos on Sunday of the hoodie-wearing assailant, who got into an argument with the 49-year-old victim inside the Woodside Grocery on 61st St. at Woodside Ave. at about 11:45 p.m. on Jan. 25.

A Brooklyn man holding a bouquet of flowers was fatally shot by a bike-riding gunman as the victim climbed into an Uber — and cops are probing whether it was an act of jealous rage, police sources said Wednesday.

Jorge Vazquez, 26, had just gotten into the back seat of a dark SUV idling outside of Home Frite, the Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant where he worked, around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday when a hooded bicyclist pedaled up and pulled open the door of the vehicle, cops said.

A crazed subway rider yelled “you white bitch” as he slashed a random Manhattan woman’s cheek with a razor blade in a Midtown station — and was then held down by fellow straphangers until police arrived, authorities said Monday.

The 24-year-old woman was on a southbound E train at the East 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue station around 6 p.m Saturday when Harlens Hernandez, 25, approached, yelled at her and cut her left cheek, cops said.

A wheelchair-bound double-amputee was tortured with a hot butter knife by a pair of home invaders — one posing as a NYCHA worker — who demanded to know where he kept cash in his Manhattan apartment, police sources said Thursday.

The 73-year-old victim was watching TV with his home attendant inside his apartment at NYCHA’s Vladeck Houses on the Lower East Side when there was a knock at the door around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

A security guard chased down a crook with an astounding 86 prior arrests after the thief ripped off a Brooklyn Gap, threatened the guard with a razor and then hid in a nearby subway station, where cops cuffed him.

Suspect Brian Colter, 47, was charged with robbery, grand larceny, weapons possession, resisting arrest, menacing and trespassing after his 6:45 p.m. Tuesday arrest at the Jay St. station in Downtown Brooklyn.

A Harlem woman courageously fought off a would-be rapist who police say may be responsible for an earlier sex attack in the same area — which cops dragged their feet investigating, police sources said Sunday.

In the most recent assault, the suspect — described as a 16-year-old male — tailed the victim home from the West 145th Street subway station on the 1 line at around 6 a.m. Saturday, then grabbed her and tried to undress her on the steps of her apartment building off Broadway, cops and sources said.

A group of club-wielding robbers pummeled a drug-trade rival in a caught-on-video beatdown in Brooklyn, cop sources said Monday night.

The 50-year-old victim was sitting on the stoop of a home on Pulaski St. near Malcolm X. Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 6:45 p.m. Feb. 2 when several men in hoodies approached him, police said.

Two hateful, N-word hurling partygoers beat a construction worker when he blocked them from taking a shortcut through his Hell’s Kitchen work site, authorities said Monday.

Klevis Vulaj — who’s also under investigation in a 2017 assault on a transgender woman — and Veton Balidemaj left a club on W. 47th St. and 11th Ave. around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, and tried to cut through the construction site a block away when they confronted the worker, police sources said.

A crew of callous kids mugged a woman in a Park Slope subway station, police said Friday.

The tiny terrors — three girls between 12 and 15-years-old and an 11-year-old boy — stormed up to the 22-year-old victim as she waited on the 9th St. R train platform about 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 30, cops said.

A 42-year-old man was found shot to death on the roof of a Brooklyn housing project, officials said Tuesday.

Police were called to an apartment building on Lexington Ave. near Marcy Ave. in Bedford Stuyvesant — part of the Louis Armstrong Houses — about 1:40 p.m. Monday by a 911 caller who said somebody was sleeping on the roof.

A pregnant real estate agent was dragged screaming from her Queens apartment and stabbed to death in the vestibule of her building early Sunday as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child, witnesses and police sources said.

The killer targeted the 35-year-old woman’s stomach, according to the building super, who said she watched surveillance video footage that captured the murder.

A man was shot and killed just outside a church in Brooklyn, cops said.

Police received a 911 call for an assault shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Weirfield Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick — just feet from the Church of God of Prophecy, police said.

A man was stabbed in an apparent road-rage attack after honking his horn at a stopped car in Brooklyn on Thursday night, police said.

The 53-year-old man was driving his blue Volvo on 65th Street near West 5th Street in Bensonhurst at about 5:30 p.m. when he honked at a red Infiniti that was stopped near the intersection, authorities said.

A good Samaritan stopped a stranger from raping a Fordham University student on a Bronx street this week, police said Thursday.

The 22-year-old victim was walking near East 189th Street and Belmont Avenue — roughly a half-mile from the Jesuit university — around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday when the creep approached and put her in a chokehold, cops said.

A 58-year-old man knifed his wife to death and wounded his teenage daughter Tuesday during a bloody clash inside a Queens apartment, according to cops.

The dad allegedly stabbed his 45-year-old wife repeatedly in the chest and body at their apartment on 69th Ave. near 195th Lane in Fresh Meadows about 3:50 p.m. He also lunged at his 18-year-old daughter, slicing her in the wrists and hands, police said.

A crazed man wielding a hammer walked into a Brooklyn seafood buffet restaurant late Tuesday afternoon and, in an unprovoked attack, beat three men in the head, one fatally, police said.

Fufai Pun, 34, a chef at the Seaport Buffet in Sheepshead Bay, was pronounced dead at a hospital, while the 60-year-old owner of the eatery and a 50-year-old manager were listed in critical condition Tuesday night.

A stranger broke into an East Village woman’s apartment, raped her, robbed her and left her bound with duct tape in a horrific attack, police and sources said Sunday.

After spending Friday night at the Knitting Factory, a Brooklyn concert venue, the 20-year-old woman was fast asleep in her East 14th Street apartment when she said she was jolted awake around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, cops and sources said.

A teenager was stabbed in front of a pizza shop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Thursday afternoon — but collapsed before he could open the door to get help and died, police sources said.

The 17-year-old victim was left sprawled out on a sidewalk with a bloody pink knife near his body after the attack around 1:30 p.m. at West 100th Street and Broadway in front of Cheesy Pizza, cops said.

Leslie Wilson has spent all of his 68 years in the Bronx and never been robbed — until now.

But on Jan. 2, Wilson, who works as a super, was jumped in his hallway as he unlocked the door to his apartment n E. 169th St. near Tinton Ave. by three masked men in a frightening attack caught on video.

A 44-year-old Brooklyn man died after he was assaulted inside his apartment, police said Monday.

Roshee Williams was attacked inside his home in the Farragut Houses on Sands St. near Navy St. near the Brooklyn Navy Yard about 10:40 a.m. Friday. Police found him semiconscious with trauma to the head.

A man was shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing development early Tuesday — marking the city’s first slaying of 2019, cops said.

The 29-year-old victim was discovered around 4:30 a.m. with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso in the fifth-floor hallway of a Stanley Avenue building within East New York’s Louis H. Pink Houses, police said.

A Washington Heights woman who lived in fear of her ex-boyfriend became one of the first murder victims of 2019 when he stabbed her to death and then flung himself to his death from her apartment terrace, police sources said.

Yuberkis Paulino, 50, was discovered dead on the floor of her bedroom early Tuesday, in what cops are investigating as a murder-suicide, per sources and neighbors.

NEW YORK (CBS NewYork)— Police are on the hunt for a man with several identifying tattoos they say raped a woman in Queens over the weekend.

Investigators say the suspect, identified by the NYPD as 24-year-old George Persaud, was brandishing an imitation firearm when he approached the 40-year-old victim in South Ozone Park between midnight and 6 a.m. on Sunday.

Four men wanted in a robbery beat down were caught on surveillance video jumping Spider-Man-style between subway cars onto a train station platform — but they’re the furthest thing from crime-fighting heroes.

The four — in their late teens or early 20s — are wanted in a Dec. 19 robbery on the Sutter Ave. L train platform in Brownsville, Brooklyn, said police.

A stranger whacked a good Samaritan in the head with a metal pipe when she tried to break up a spat he was having with another Manhattan straphanger, cops said Thursday.

The 28-year-old victim was on the northbound N/Q/R platform of the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday when she attempted to intervene in an argument between two men, cops said.

A woman was sexually assaulted and punched in the face on a Queens street early Tuesday, police said.

The 56-year-old woman was walking near 165th Street and Sanford Avenue in Murray Hill about 2 a.m. when a man came up to her, punched her multiple times in the face and sexually assaulted her, police said.

NEW YORK (CBS New York) — An NYPD officer is being hailed as a hero after his quick actions saved a man from bleeding to death when an attempted robbery turned violent at an upper Manhattan pizza shop.

Authorities on Tuesday arrested a hate-filled parolee they say beat an off-duty FDNY firefighter to death with a baseball bat during a road rage incident in Brooklyn.

Suspect Joseph Desmond — a reputed member of the Latin Kings who was just released from prison seven months ago after serving four years for an anti-gay attack in Queens — was apprehended with a woman at the Circle Inn on Victory Plaza hotel in South Amboy N.J., early Tuesday, officials said.

A man shot near his Brooklyn home pointed out his killer before he died, police said Wednesday.

Mohammed Grine, 23, identified 23-year-old James Raccagna as the alleged assailant, who was still on the scene of the fatal shooting when cops arrived at 20th Ave. near Shore Parkway Sunday night. Police arrested him at that time, authorities said Wednesday.

Four women and a man were shot and wounded in a hail of bullets early Saturday during a brawl outside a troubled Queens club, officials said.

The victims, all between 23 and 35 years old, were leaving the Rose Lounge on 130th St. in Richmond Hill about 3:46 a.m. when a gunman opened fire, according to Assistant Chief David Barrere,the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South.

A woman and young girl were wounded in the crossfire of a wild shootout on a Bronx street Wednesday as police chased and shot a masked gunman carrying a red backpack filled with suspected drugs, police said.

The suspect had just ripped off a group of drug dealers in the lobby of an apartment building on W. 183rd St. near Loring Place North in University Heights around 6:10 p.m. and was running away, his gun blazing, when officers on patrol spotted him, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said.

Police on Saturday released a photo of two men wanted in connection to a Brooklyn shooting that killed one and injured another.

The men — who were photographed near the crime scene — are wanted for questioning in the slaying Tuesday of Jahlil Grant, 21, who was walking with another man at the Roosevelt Houses, near the corner of Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Pulaski St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Hate was in full force when a pack of teens assaulted a 16-year-old Jewish teen while allegedly screaming, "Kill the Jew!"

David Paltielov is still hospitalized with bruises, lacerations and contusions to the head after being stomped on and beaten by dozens of boys in Queens, N.Y. Two teens, ages 17 and 18 were arrested on Thursday in relation to the beating, but the New York City Police Department didn't charge them with a hate crime. Both were charged with first-degree felony gang assault and second-degree felony assault.

A famished man who flipped out at a Brooklyn deli clerk for not making his a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich fast enough is now a wanted felon — and to add insult to injury, he wanted it served on a cinnamon raisin bagel.

Surveillance footage released by police Monday shows the 55-year-old victim standing near the turnstile inside the Hunts Point Avenue train station around 6:30 a.m. Nov. 25 when the assailant approaches.

A scammer in Times Square stole $1,200 from a tourist and left her with a pocket full of newspaper instead of bills, the NYPD said.

The man posed as a visitor from another country on Nov. 23 and said he had been robbed of $300, then asked the 23-year-old victim if she could hold his money, the NYPD said. He said he kept his money an orange bandana.

A 24-year-old man whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag outside a Yonkers bank last month was slain in a Bronx housing project after a love triangle took a deadly turn, officials said Tuesday.

Investigators believe Deshawn Cortez-Seaborn, of Virginia, was knifed to death inside a fourth-floor apartment in the Edenwald Houses on Schieflin Ave. near E. 229th St. on Nov. 19, police sources said.

A killer shot a Brooklyn man twice in the head in his third-floor apartment Monday night, police said.

Police found Theodore Smith, 29, just before 7:30 p.m. in his apartment in on Park Ave. and Broadway in the Sumner Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Medics took him to Woodhull Medical Center, but he couldn’t be saved.

ELMHURST, QUEENS — Police took a Queens high school student into custody after he allegedly stabbed another student late Thursday morning, the NYPD said. The 17-year-old stabbed the other male student in the chest around 11:54 a.m. in front of the Pan American International High School in Elmhurst, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

The victim, 19, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition and is expected to survive, the spokeswoman said said.

A man was busted Friday in the unhinged beat-down of an off-duty rookie cop in Brooklyn, police said.

Aleksejs Saveljev, 32, of Manhattan Beach, faces multiple counts of assault in the unprovoked Nov. 8 attack on the officer, who was walking his Golden Retriever along Williams Court and E. 11th St. in Sheepshead Bay.

A man was shot to death after in Brooklyn — possibly in retaliation for an earlier clash over a waitress at a East New York nightspot, police and witnesses said Saturday.

Kevin Virgo, 27, was spotted arguing with at least three men outside the Atlantic Boat Club on Atlantic Ave. and Grand Ave. shortly before he was shot in the chest and thigh at 10:30 p.m. Friday, cops said.

An off-duty cop was shot when two groups opened fire on each other on a Bronx street early Tuesday, police said.

The 33-year-old officer, who is assigned to the 43rd Precinct, was driving another cop home when the bullets began flying on E. 137th St. near Brook Ave. in Mott Haven around 12:05 a.m.,authorities said.

A man has died and his 5-year-old son was wounded when the two were shot in a staircase inside a Bronx apartment building, police said.

The 29-year-old father, Jaquan Millien, had just picked up his son from school, and the two went to visit someone in the Butler Houses in Claremont Village. They were in the staircase on the fifth floor when someone opened fire.

A father was wounded and his son was killed in a stabbing after they got into an argument with another man, police said.

The 56-year-old father and his 35-year-old son, identified by police as Hason Correa, of the Bronx, allegedly beat up another man after getting into an argument with him on 152nd Street, near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, in Harlem on Friday night, the NYPD said.

A teenager has been arrested on a hate crime charge after surveillance video showed him beating an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn Monday.

Surveillance cameras showed the victim running into a dry cleaners as the black teenager chased after him and beat the victim with a tree branch, according to police and witnesses. The branch broke on the victim's back.

An 11-year-old girl was raped in the bathroom in broad daylight of a Bronx park by another teen, police said.

The girl was near Hilton White Park in Morrisania on Oct. 14 around 11 a.m. when she met with the assailant, who is believed to be between 14 and 16 years old, the NYPD said. Cops later said the girl told them she has seen the alleged rapist in the neighborhood before, but doesn't really know who he is.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly groped a woman, then fondled himself on the subway in Brooklyn last week.

The victim, a 25-year-old woman, was on the southbound F train in Park Slope during the evening rush last Friday when she said the man started rubbing her upper thigh, according to police. When she moved away from him, she saw that he was masturbating inside his pants.

A heartless purse snatcher snagged a 57-year-old woman’s handbag as she walked down a rain-swept Brooklyn street — pulling his defiant victim to the ground as they struggled over the purse, stunning video shows.

Police on Tuesday released the surveillance video in the hopes that someone recognizes the crook responsible for the Oct. 11 mugging.

Police in Manhattan are on the hunt for a trio of violent subway robbers who cops say attacked and beat a woman inside a Chelsea station for money.

The 30-year-old woman was approached by the three suspects inside the 23rd Street C train subway station around 10 Monday night, according to the NYPD. As she was walking into the station, one of them kicked her in her back.

City police are investigating after they said a local rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a lounge in Queens on Sunday morning.

"I just see chairs all over the floor and then I just see him on the floor, and then I didn't see anything until he starting gasping and blood just was going everywhere," said bartender Tieshajah Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting.

A 64-year-old man was slashed on a bus in Queens after an argument with another passenger over one accidentally bumping the other, police said.

The man got into the argument with a woman on a northbound Q3 bus near Farmers and Merrick boulevards in St. Albans shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 3. After, when the bus stopped, a man got on and slashed the 64-year-old in the head and face, police said.

A homeless man stabbed a Queens straphanger in the chest during rush hour Wednesday after the victim tried to break up an argument on a subway platform, police sources said.

The suspect, who remains at large, was arguing with a woman on the northbound F train platform at the 75th Ave. station in Forest Hills at 5 p.m., when a 49-year-old good Samaritan intervened, sources said.

The bigot who randomly attacked two gay men in Williamsburg — hurling a slur at them and then knocking them unconscious— is an Ernst & Young consultant who was arrested Wednesday, according to police and the company.

Brandon McNamara, 25, turned himself in at the Seventh Precinct — home to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force — around 8 a.m. with his lawyer, police said.

NEW YORK — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighbourhood nursery for new mothers and their children, authorities said.

All of the victims in the attack, which happened before 4 a.m., were hospitalized but expected to survive.

NEW YORK — A man shot and killed a woman who is believed to be his ex-girlfriend and wounded the woman’s new boyfriend before turning the gun on himself inside a Queens apartment Friday morning, police said.

A 911 call from a neighbor led police to the residence on 77th Street, where the bodies of Regan Smith, 31, and the suspected shooter, 47-year-old Nelson Giron, were recovered around 7 a.m. The second man, identified as a 43-year-old off-duty Yonkers police officer, was found with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and what was believed to be two stab wounds, police said. He was transported to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he underwent surgery and was expected to survive.

This is the suspected burglar who leaped from the roof of a proposed Billionaires’ Row homeless shelter to the penthouse of a Paul Manafort-linked banker and ransacked the pad — the second apartment he cleaned out in a matter of hours, cops said Wednesday.

Police are looking for the person who robbed an 8-year-old boy of his cellphone in the Bronx on Monday.

The suspect followed the boy, whose mother says he was coming home from summer camp, into the vestibule of an apartment building in the area of St. Ann's Avenue and East 139th Street just before 6 p.m. and tried to snatch his cellphone from his hands, police said.

A 15-year-old boy shot and wounded by cops in Far Rockaway after he opened fire at an event honoring gun-violence victims was charged with attempted murder and weapons violations Saturday, authorities said.

Cops were breaking up a large disorderly group at a barbecue on Redfern Ave. near Nameoke Ave. late Friday when the 15-year-old, whose name wasn’t released because of his age, began firing off rounds, NYPD Chief David Barrere said.

Authorities are looking for a woman who allegedly attacked a 26-year-old subway rider when she sat down next to her earlier this month, repeatedly nudging her and then yanking her hair and punching her multiple times in the head.

The 26-year-old woman grabbed a seat next to the suspect on a rush-hour northbound No. 1 train in the Bronx Aug. 1, and cops say the older woman got annoyed. First she just nudged the 26-year-old rider, over and over again.

A quick-thinking woman managed to snap cell phone pictures of a perv she says masturbated in front of her on a Queens street — and cops have released the images.

The 47-year-old woman was sitting in her car near 65th Ave. and 174th St. in Fresh Meadows when a man started masturbating in front of her about 3:40 a.m. Monday. She drove off to seek help at a nearby gas station and the creep followed her there, according to police.

Two women — one a nail salon employee and one a customer—face charges in connection with a wild brawl that broke out a Brooklyn shop last week, allegedly over a botched eyebrow job, according to authorities and a published report.

Video posted to Facebook by another customer who happened to be inside New Red Apple Nails on East Flatbush's Nostrand Avenue when the chaos broke out around 9:30 p.m. Friday shows the worker wielding a broom and repeatedly whacking the customer in the back and shoulder area.

The stabbing happened just before 10 a.m. on 59th Street. Police closed off part of the street, focusing their investigation on a minivan that sources say was the livery cab in which the victim and three suspects got into some sort of dispute.

A 27 year-old male was gunned down in front of a Buddhist temple in the Bronx Tuesday night, according to cops.

The unidentified victim was found by police in front of the Chùa Thập Phương Temple on Andrews Ave N, in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx, with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and head according to cops and witnesses from the scene.

Gotham echoed with gunfire Saturday night into Sunday as 16 people were shot in 10 incidents over a span of less than seven hours — with one person dead and three others clinging to life after the overnight violence.

The carnage kicked off at 9:43 p.m. in the Bronx when a man wearing a red bandanna in a black sedan squeezed off six rounds at the corner of West 166th Street and Nelson Avenue, nailing an 18-year-old in the shoulder and a 20-year-old in the eye and abdomen, according to police. The eye-shot victim checked himself into Lincoln Hospital, police said.

Dramatic video shows the moment a man pulled a gun and opened fire, striking two teens this week in broad daylight in Harlem.

In the 17-second cellphone video — which was taken by a New York state parole officer sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car and obtained by The Post — the red-shorts-wearing gunman can be seen running toward two boys before two shots ring out.

Two city Parks Department employees were arrested on Sunday for allegedly beating up a man who was urinating in a Bronx park, police sources said.

The victim was allegedly peeing in Jerome Park, which is next to the Bronx High School of Science in Bedford Park, at about 1:30 p.m. when the two workers confronted him, according to a law-enforcement source.

A straphanger with a man-bun stabbed a stranger in the mouth with a pen during a robbery in a Harlem train station, cops said.

The assailant approached his 36-year-old victim on a Bronx-bound 6 train and followed him onto the platform at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station around 10 p.m. on June 28, according to police.

A man and a woman were fatally struck Thursday after he dragged her, screaming, in front of a Brooklyn subway train in what police believed was a murder-suicide, sources said.

Anthony Collins, 54, of Jamaica, Queens, grabbed his girlfriend, Cyntha Raiser, 42, of Brooklyn — who was struggling and shouting, “No, no, no” — at the Broadway Junction station at about 4:45 p.m. and pulled her along as he leaped in front of a Manhattan-bound C train, the sources said.

A Brooklyn man who rushed to help a woman who'd been attacked by another driver in a road rage incident was himself attacked by the aggressive driver, who allegedly hit him with a van, breaking the good Samaritan's legs.

Warren Thompson says he was getting pizza in Williamsburg Tuesday night when he saw a van sideswipe an older woman's car on Driggs and North Fifth. The woman got out of her car, and the van driver also got out, yelling and waving around brass knuckles, he said.

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help finding a woman accused of punching a 66-year-old man in the face following an argument on the 1 train in Washington Heights Monday, police say.

According to the NYPD, the suspect and victim were arguing on board the 1 train heading Uptown at approximately 6 p.m. on Monday. Once the train pulled into the station at 191st Street, the woman punched the man in the face and fled the scene.

Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly screamed profanities at an NYPD traffic agent who ticketed him for double parking, then followed her in his SUV and chucked a bottle with clear liquid out the window, hitting her in the back, last week.

The 55-year-old traffic agent had given the man a ticket on Steinway Street in Queens shortly before 5 p.m. July 20. Authorities say the suspect walked up to her, cursed at her and then got into the passenger side of his vehicle. A woman was driving.

Authorities have uncovered a massive narcotics mill in the Bronx — and seized $7.5 million in heroin and fentanyl, including some labeled “Death” and “Kill.”

Investigators found the haul during a court-authorized search of the illicit packaging plant in the Soundview neighborhood, according to a statement from the city’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

A Queens woman was strangled to death inside her home near Kennedy Airport — and discovered by her concerned brothers, who checked on her after she wasn’t answering phone calls, police and relatives said.

Cops found Samantha Stewart just after 9 p.m. Tuesday at her Jamaica home on 145th Road near 167th Street — with trauma to her neck and head, cops said.

An off-duty MTA worker was shot by a stray bullet while riding the subway Tuesday evening, according to police.

Carlo Thorne, 47, was riding a southbound 3 train when a fight broke out between two groups inside the subway car as it pulled into the station at Rutland Road and East 98th Street in Brooklyn at approximately 6:20pm, according to cops.

Police on Sunday released surveillance footage of several suspects wanted in connection to a shooting that injured three people — including two innocent bystanders — on the busy Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn.

The gunfire erupted on Fulton Street near the intersection of Gallatin Place at about 1:45 p.m. on Friday, police said.

A Bonanno crime family associate was critically wounded in an attempted hit steps away from his lavish Bronx home Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Salvatore “Sally Daz” Zottola was shot multiple times — including once in the head and three times in the torso — when someone inside a dark Nissan sedan opened fire as he was walking to his car on Tierney Place near Longstreet Avenue in the Locust Point section of the borough around 6:40 a.m., sources said.

A 16-year-old boy was killed when a gunman shot him in the head in broad daylight as the teen walked with his girlfriend on a tree-lined Brooklyn block Wednesday, police said.

The victim was walking with his sweetheart on Macon St. near Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when he got into a war of words with the gunman who opened fire around 2 p.m., according to authorities.

A person was killed and four were injured in a chaotic incident on Staten Island Tuesday morning that involved a car ramming into a home in the St. George neighborhood.

“It looks like there was someone chasing someone, fired some shots at him, and the car ended up crashing into someone, and there was one person that was dead on arrival over there,” NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said at an unrelated press conference. “We’ve made four arrests and recovered a gun.”

After fighting off a would-be rapist, the victim ran into her attacker a second time while trying to escape the Bronx park where she was jogging, police say.

The 35-year-old woman was jogging through a wooded section of Bronx River Forest Park at around 8 a.m. Monday when a stranger came up behind her, according to NYPD. The attacker tried to cover her mouth with his hand as he pulled her backwards, but she was able to fight him off and call out for help before running further into the park to escape.

A homeless man went on a drunken rampage and attacked three women in the East Village — knocking out on one victim’s tooth with a bike lock, law enforcement sources said Sunday.

The man went off the rails at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday, when he cut off a 20-year-old woman on his bicycle on E. 11th Street near Second Avenue — then allegedly shoved her to the ground and pummeled her in the face with his fist, cops said.

Staten Island saw 10 overdoses — three of which were fatal — over the Fourth of July holiday period, officials said.

The borough’s district attorney said the overdoses took place over four days from July 4 though 7 — with one victim found in a Burger King bathroom and another in the restroom at the Staten Island Ferry terminal.

An NYPD detective was shot in the leg by a career criminal Friday morning as he tried to serve a warrant for a domestic robbery involving a gun in Brooklyn, police sources said.

The wounded detective, identified by sources as Brooklyn North Warrant Squad member Miguel Soto, and two other cops in an unmarked car spotted suspect Kelvin Stichel, 33, going the opposite way on Decatur St. near Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 6:30 a.m.

A bandanna-clad shooter was caught on video blasting another man in the back in a crowded apartment building hallway, police said Thursday.

The shooter, wearing a light-blue bandanna tight around his head, can be seen lurking in the stairwell of a building on Kings Highway near E. 98th St. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, as a group of people pass at about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday.

A 27-year-old man was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street corner Thursday night, marking just the second murder this year in an East New York police precinct that saw triple-digit homicide numbers in the 1990s.

The victim was shot on the corner of Pitkin and Montauk Aves. at about 9:30 p.m., after getting into an argument with someone in a white luxury sedan, cops said.

A 58-year-old man was stabbed to death outside his own home in the St. Albans section of Queens on Thursday morning, police say.

The victim, later identified as Mario Cesar, suffered multiple stab wounds to the body. He was found unresponsive in the driveway of his home on 116 Avenue when NYPD arrived on the scene at around 9:30 a.m.

A baby reveal party turned bad when a 34-year-old man was fatally shot in a Bronx park Sunday morning.

Matthew Cruz was shot in the head and back on a paved path inside Rainey Park near Beck St. and Intervale Ave. around 7:35 a.m., police said. Medics rushed Cruz to Lincoln Hospital but he could not be saved.

Family members said Cruz was attending the party earlier in the night when he continued the celebration in the park.

A deranged husband hacked off his pregnant wife’s right arm below her biceps, and cut off two of the fingers of her left hand at their Brooklyn home on Thursday, police sources said.

The hubby, identified by sources as Yong Lu, 35, used a steak knife to chop off the arm and sever two fingers on her other limb in their apartment on 55th St. near Fifth Ave. in Sunset Park around 12:20 p.m., cops said.

The gang-related stabbing of a teenager on the Bronx River Parkway has been linked to the stabbing death of 15-year-old Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Wednesday.

Shea said the incidents are connected beyond the fact that the same gang -- the Trinitarios -- was involved in both stabbings, but would not specify further. He did not talk about a motive or give additional details

A member of the same bloodthirsty gang that murdered a teenager outside a Bronx bodega and knifed another on the Bronx River Parkway has been charged with stabbing and robbing a man on the Upper East Side, cops said.

Missael Alvarez, 16, who cops describe as a member of the Trinitarios street gang, was busted Thursday night on robbery charges.

Homicides are down so far this year on Staten Island, except for one neighborhood where two were reported in less than two weeks.

Last month, investigators responded to a shooting and a stabbing in Stapleton, within blocks of each other. One outside of a bar on a public street and the other inside a luxury apartment building, respectively.

The NYPD is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a man sought for questioning in connection with a fist fight at a beach-side restaurant, which police say left a 62-year-old woman with injuries.

The fight was reported June 9 at about 12:30 a.m., when an unidentified man involved in a physical altercation with another man inadvertently struck a person in the face with a chair, according to a post to the 122nd precinct's Twitter account.

Public Safety Policy Discussion

The district attorneys of Manhattan and the Bronx have agreed to clear all summonses for petty offenses — so-called quality of life crimes — from their books after Queens Councilman Rory Lancman urged all city prosecutors abandon prosecuting “broken windows” offenses.

Lancman, the head of the council’s justice system committee and a candidate for Queens DA, wrote a letter to all five city district attorney offices last week expressing his concern that warrants on summonses had started to increase after a steep drop following the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act.

Just five hours after the ball dropped in Times Square, a masked shooter in East New York pulled out a gun and blasted 29-year-old Tyleek White as he stood in the hallway of the Stanley Avenue Pink Houses.

It was the city’s first murder of 2019, the end of an unprecedented four-month streak without a single homicide in the notoriously bloody 75th Precinct.

Homicides in the city have surged by 37% so far in 2019, and the NYPD said on Monday it will be sending more cops to some neighborhoods to turn the tide.

There have been 52 murders in the city year-to-date compared with 38 in the same period last year, officials said. A spike in the month of February, which had 24 homicides compared with 16 in February last year, helped drive up the statistics.

NYPD brass is dragging its feet on a pair of City Council proposals to protect the children of incarcerated parents or caregivers.

Spurred in part by the arrest of Jazmine Headley, a 23-year-old Brooklyn mom whose infant was torn from her arms by cops at a Human Resources Administration office in December, one bill would require the NYPD to implement a child sensitive arrest policy, including the delay of arrests while kids are around whenever possible. The legislation would also require officers to ask if the suspect being arrested is responsible for any children and to train cops on the effect of trauma on kids.

A coalition of 88 police reform groups are making a hard push to scrap a decades-old state law that keeps officer discipline records secret.

The groups — many of them working under the banner of Communities United for Police Reform — will send a letter Tuesday to the state legislature calling for a series of police reforms, including the repeal of 50-a — a 1976 statute that limits public access to police and firefighters' disciplinary records.

The New York City Council's Committee on Public Safety convened on Thursday to discuss a sweeping package of bills to improve police accountability for officer misconduct, sparking impassioned testimonies from relatives of victims and accusations of apathy by police officials.

"I don't think the NYPD understands what they're doing to people," said Victor Dempsey, the brother of Delrawn Small, who was killed by off-duty officer Wayne Isaacs. "Not only are they murdering civilians--they're demolishing the trust people have in them."

After rolling out a feature on Google Maps and Waze to warn users of upcoming police speed traps and DWI checkpoints, Google has run afoul of the NYPD, who have sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the features be removed.

"The NYPD has become aware that the Waze Mobile application...currently permits the public to report DWI checkpoints throughout New York City and map these locations," wrote Ann Prunty, the NYPD's acting deputy commissioner for legal matters. "Accordingly, we demand that Google LLC, upon receipt of this letter, immediately remove this function from the Waze application."

In January, a sleeping rider was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver on New York City’s subway. A month before that, a police officer fended off five homeless men who attacked him on a train platform. And on Sunday afternoon, a man wasfatally shot at a subway station in Queens, the first recorded murder on the system in six months.

The subway has come a long way since the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s when violence was rampant and riders felt constant dread. The system has become very safe, with just one murder on the subway last year compared with 26 in 1990.

A courageous undercover NYPD detective sealed the deal on a big firearms bust in The Bronx — posing as a buyer for a delivery of 16 handguns and high-capacity “drum magazines” from Florida, officials said.

The two traffickers met with the undercover at an apartment on Tinton Avenue last August, and laid out six firearms and six magazines on a bed, according to an indictment announced Thursday.

The NYPD has never had a female top cop — but Police Commissioner James O’Neill could see a woman taking the reins once his tenure comes to an end.

“We have a lot of really great women leaders,” O’Neill told The Post on Monday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview in his 1 Police Plaza office. “They could do the job just as well as any man could do it.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office planned — then abruptly canceled — a police raid on a South Bronx park that has been at thecenter of Post storiesabout public drug use and littered syringes, a report said Monday.

Politico New Yorkreportedthat City Hall had been planning to step up enforcement at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven starting Monday following the series of articles, but the sweep was scrapped when the news site reported on the plan.

The city is turning to a modern fix for an old violence problem at homeless shelters.

The Department of Homeless Services is soliciting proposals for body cameras for the 800 peace officers who patrol the shelters — and aims to equip the cameras with Bluetooth technology that'd sync with Tasers carried by the officers.

A wild police beatdown that ended with two men bruised and bloodied has sparked an NYPD investigation into whether the cops used excessive force — with the mayor demanding answers about a “troubling” clash caught on video.

Cops were seen on video striking the two men with batons multiple times, and then piling onto one who ended up on the ground, kicking and hitting him. The footage came from a bystander’s cell phone.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday calledvideo of NYPD cops using batons against two men in Upper Manhattan“really troubling” — and a police source said the incident could get at least one officer arrested.

De Blasio said “very preliminary” information suggested “that the individuals involved were creating a real problem for neighbors” and may have resisted arrest.

About 300 more people came forward to report they were raped last year in New York City than the previous year, a sharp increase that officials theorize was fueled in part by the #MeToo movement.

While other violent crimes like murder and assault decreased or remained relatively flat, the police said reported rapes increased 22.4 percent to 1,795 in 2018, up from 1,467 from 2017. A broader category of sex crimes that includes groping and forcible touching also jumped 8.4 percent to 3,873 in 2018, from 3,573 in 2017, according to police statistics.

The NYPD knows that legal weed is coming, but it’s top enforcer has fears about underage smoking and dangerous marijuana grow houses.

“We have to make sure that we’re able to address people that are under 21 that are using marijuana to make sure there are sanctions for that and also to keep young people safe,” NYPD commissioner James O’Neill said Sunday on radio host John Catsimatidis’ AM 970 show, The Cats Roundtable.

Junkies have turned an upper Manhattan subway station into a squalid drug den — brazenly shooting up on the platform and littering the place with their used syringes.

Outraged neighborhood residents say heroin addicts have all but taken over the West 181st Street station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, and complain that officials are ignoring the latest symptom of the city’sspiraling opioid crisis.

Recidivist criminals committed nearly one of every five New York City murders last year — leading Mayor Bill de Blasio to express “real concerns about the parole system” on Thursday.

NYPD statistics show that parolees and probationers were responsible for 19 percent of the 289 murders recorded during 2018, marking the second year in a row that percentage increased, officials revealed during a news conference at the 67th Precinct station house in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Despite increases in rapes and subway crime, the NYPD says 2018 was the safest year on record in New York City.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the city's 289 murders were the fewest in nearly 70 years. He also reported a drop in burglaries, robberies and shootings, which all saw a dramatic decrease from the previous year.

O'Neill credited officers on the street and community involvement for the promising statistics.

NEW YORK — Roving gangs of pickpockets from South America were part of the reason crime spiked in the city's transportation system last year, a top police official said Thursday.

The NYPD recorded a 3.8 percent increase in overall transit crimes in 2018, police statistics show. Chief of Transit Edward Delatorre said the rise was driven by grand larcenies, which also increased citywide last year.

New York’s Muslim community has joined the ranks of minority groups who have organized their own security-based patrols.

Decked out with insignia identical to that of New York City police patrol cars (except for the name), the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is watching over parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn that have large Muslim communities.

NEW YORK (WABC) --At least three homicides in New York City made for a violent end to 2018 and a violent start to 2019.

New York City Police officers responded to an evening robbery-homicide in Greenwich Village, a fatal stabbing in Far Rockaway during the final hour of 2018 and another fatal shooting in a housing complex in Brooklyn before the sun was up Jan. 1, 2019.

Despite the killings, the New York Police Department set records for lowering crime in 2018.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview Sunday, career criminal Marc Malone admitted to The Post that he targeted elderly victim Lyubov Faynshteyn’s Coney Island public-housing building — because he heard its front-door lock was busted.

Former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday morning that the state will be “opening up Pandora’s box” if marijuana is legalized.

“At this particular time, I still strongly oppose it. I think there are too many unanswered questions,” Bratton told 970 AM host John Catsimatidis on his morning radio show, “The Cats Roundtable.” “We still don’t have effective capabilities in law enforcement to deal with the issue of driving while impaired by the use of marijuana. It is as addictive as any other drug.”

As New York moves toward legalizing recreational marijuana, the instances of motorists driving while stoned is likely to surge, if the past experience of weed-legal states is any indicator.

In Colorado, where pot sales began in 2014, 69 percent of pot users said they had driven while high at least once in the past year and 27 percent said they drove stoned almost daily, according to preliminary survey results released by that state’s transportation department in April.

The NYPD is ramping up security for the city’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square with more than 1,200 cameras — some installed on high-flying drones — to protect the nearly 2 million expected revelers, police officials said Friday.

One of the high-tech gadgets will be tethered to the top of a building to prevent potential attacks on the wild party below, Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at a press conference.

The city plans to hire six workers just to clean up the fields of syringes littering drug-infested South Bronx parks amid the failure of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s program to get junkies to toss their used needles in special bins.

Asked about The Post’s front-page story on the syringe-dropping plague, the Parks Department said Friday that the new workers — to be hired in January at an annual cost of about $350,000 in salaries and benefits — will be “dedicated to routinely canvassing and cleaning high-volume areas” favored by addicts.

The city’s top cop said Sunday that the NYPD knowslegal weed isn’t far off for the Big Apple— but he’s concerned about how the drug might affect drivers.

“The NYPD knows it’s coming,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill told radio host John Catsimatidis on his morning AM 970 show The Cats Roundtable. “And a few of those things are, what are we going to do about the people that are under the age of 21?”

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have junkies toss their used syringes into special receptacles has failed to clean up drug-infested parks, and the bins are serving more as suggestion boxes — spreading the message that the city is OK with them shooting up there.

Official statistics obtained by The Post from the first six months of de Blasio’s controversial program show that parks in the Bronx are still littered with dangerous hypodermic needles, with nearly 60,000 found on the ground compared with just 7,000 in Hizzoner’s 44 locked containers.

The borough is on track to end the year with fewer than 100 homicides for the first time in nearly 50 years, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez announced today.

So far, there have been just 97 homicides in 2018, a record low since “modern” record-keeping began in 1970 — and a stark departure from the 800 reported slayings at the height of crack cocaine violence in 1992, his office said.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday said it’s the NYPD’s fault that his office cut loose the homeless men caught on camera attacking a cop in a Manhattan subway station — because they were only busted for illegally sleeping on the platform, which no longer gets prosecuted under a 2016 accord.

Vance spokesman Danny Frost said prosecutors didn’t know the vagrants “were suspected of anything other than sleeping on the subway” when they got hauled into court Monday night — even though video of the attack, first reported by The Post, prompted multiple news reports earlier in the day.

A New York City police officer is receiving praise for using nonlethal force to fend off five menacing, visibly drunk men on a subway platform, according to authorities and video of the incident.

A video of the confrontation Sunday taped by a bystander and posted on social media shows Officer Syed Ali shouting repeatedly: "Stand back. I don't want to hurt you," as the men approached him in unison. The officer brandished his baton, but does not appear to have reached for his service revolver.

NEW YORK — Bigotry against Jewish people has fueled a spike in hate crimes in New York City in 2018, police statistics show. The NYPD has recorded 352 hate crimes this year as of Sunday, up about 6 percent from 331 in the same time last year.

Jews have been targeted in more than half those incidents. There have been 183 anti-Semitic hate crimes so far this year, a 22 percent increase from last year and a 38.6 percent spike from around the same time in 2016, NYPD figures show.

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) -- The innocent woman hospitalized when police officers opened fire on a suspect in the Bronx is speaking out.

Forty-five-year-old Irene Perez was critically injured by NYPD Officer Juan Gomez's stray bullet during a shootout. It happened December 7 in University Heights as Gomez and his partner chased an armed robbery suspect, 36-year-old Edwin Castillo.

New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it.

A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s culture-specific security groups.

New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it.

A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s culture-specific security groups.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Wednesday that he’s following through on plans to wipe out more than 1,400 warrants in misdemeanor weed possession cases, as well as over two dozen past convictions.

“The majority of these warrants were issued to black and Latino New Yorkers, and many are remnants of stop-and-frisk policies that harmed many of our communities and that the city has since abandoned,” Gonzalez said in court.

A client went berserk at a Manhattan welfare office Tuesday, attacking a city peace officer and resisting staff’s request to calm down by howling, “This ain’t f-----g Brooklyn!” — a reference to another recent brawl in a welfare office that ended with NYPD cops snatching a baby from his mother’s arms.

A peace officer suffered a broken wrist in the Tuesday fracas — and cops, when called, showed up but declined to get involved, according to an internal report of the altercation obtained by the Daily News.

An NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau review concluded that police officers did nothing wrong when they dragged a one-year-old boy away from his mother at a Brooklyn public service assistance center earlier this month.

According to Politico, the Internal Affairs Bureau found no wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved in the brutal arrest of Jazmine Headley, which went viral earlier this month, and the officers are not expected to face any discipline or change of status.

New York's highest court last week declared that even heavily redacted police disciplinary records can be hidden from public view. It was a dark day for anyone who cares about holding the minority of cops who abuse their authority accountable — which should be everyone.

The dispute centers around a four-decade-old law referred to as 50-a, which limits public access to police and firefighters' disciplinary records.

The head of the union that represents two Human Resources Administration officers suspended after the video-recorded wrestling of a baby from its mother demanded on Monday that Mayor Bill de Blasio reinstate them and apologize for making them his “sacrificial lambs.”

Teamsters Local 237 president Gregory Floyd has blasted Hizzoner repeatedly in the wake of the Dec. 7 arrest of Jazmine Headley while she was cradling her 1-year-old son in a Brooklyn public benefits office — both for the mayor’s slow public response and for his singling out of HRA officers for rebuke.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Data from the NYPD shows that injuries to school safety officers have seen a decline in consecutive years citywide, down from 121 reported cases in 2016 to only 28 through three quarters of 2018.

While the 2018 statistics only feature 75 percent of the expected data for 2018, a drastic dip in overall injuries is evident.

However, the fourth quarter of the year has been known to see an uptick in overall injuries, according to NYPD data.

A year ago this week, a man detonated a pipe bomb during rush hour inside the passageway connecting the Times Square and Port Authority subway stations. It was the first attempted suicide terrorist attack in NYC since September 11th, although only two people, including the bomber, were hurt. Coinciding with the anniversary, the NYPD rolled out a new security pilot program inside Port Authority: a singular subway metal detector, manned by heavily-armed officers.

The metal detector was installed on Wednesday, the anniversary of Akayed Ullah's pipe bomb attack. As with the NYPD's bag search program, the department says subway riders are chosen randomly for the enhanced screening. NYPD Transit tweeted about it, along with the intimidating photo up above, "Our officers working with our @PANYNJ Police partners this morning at the Port Authority Bus Terminal / 42nd Street subway station in our constant effort to keep travelers safe." Twitter users immediately mocked it, calling it a "nuisance" and a "huge show of security theater."

New York — Law enforcement authorities say a flurry of bomb threats sent electronically across the country are "NOT CREDIBLE," including those in New York City. Multiple reports Thursday said various states, businesses, medical offices and schools were the target of the alleged threats. Dozens of local police departments from coast to coast said they were investigating, but nothing had been found.

"Searches have been conducted and NO DEVICES have been found," NYPD said. "We'll respond to each call regarding these emails to conduct a search but we wanted to share this information so the credibility of these threats can be assessed as likely NOT CREDIBLE."

Pedro Hernandez, who became a bail reform darling after he spent a year at Rikers Island because he was unable to post the money needed for his freedom, was arrested Wednesday for driving with a suspended license, police said.

It is the third time he’s been arrested for driving without a valid license in the past two years, sources said.

Cops stopped Hernandez, 19, shortly after noon after he was seen driving a BMW with no front license plate on Bronxwood Ave. near E. 213th St. in Williamsbridge. The car’s rear license plate didn’t match the vehicle and may have been stolen, police sources said. When cops ran his driver’s license, they realized it was suspended.

Police brass can no longer bar officers accused of misconduct from earning overtime, the Daily News has learned.

An arbitration board has reversed the NYPD’s order that cops who have been stripped of their guns and shields and assigned to desk duty as they face internal disciplinary action are not eligible for overtime unless no one else is available to do their assignment.

Charges will be dropped against the mother whose 1-year-old son was forcefully yanked away by New York Police Department officers last week, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement on Tuesday.

Jazmine Headley, 23, was arrested Friday at a Brooklyn social services office and faced four charges, including resisting arrest and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

The head of the NYPD’s sergeants’ union on Sunday blasted the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights charity for bailing out hundreds of accused criminals — many with histories of violence.

“It’s lunacy,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said on AM 970’s John Catsimatidis’ “The Cats Roundtable” radio show. “They are beginning to develop a history of posting bail for individuals who are not returning to court, who have a history of crimes.”

So argues the New York Civil Liberties Union, which in a Dec. 7 statement blasts the forthcoming NYPD deployment of the flying surveillance bots as "a serious threat to privacy." The 14 police drones, which the New York Times reports had been acquired by city police in June, are ostensibly to be used for tasks like keeping an eye on large crowds or hostage situations. However, critics see the deployment as the start of a very slippery, privacy-eroding slope.

After all, large crowds of people often gather together to lawfully protest something like, say, police brutality. Or, as the NYPD specifically notes as a drone-appropriate example (according to the NYCLU), the Women's March.

Even though the territories held by extremist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS have been eroded, the groups' global propaganda reach is still proving to be an effective recruitment tool, inspiring uncomplicated but deadly terror attacks on U.S. soil, according to the head of the New York Police Department's Intelligence and Counterterrorism bureaus.

"[T]he unintended consequence of our effectively smashing ISIS and al-Qaeda – the pieces scattered," said Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller in a recent interview with Intelligence Matters host and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell.

The NYPD is buzzing about it’s new fleet of drones — but not all of the buzz is good.

The department announced Tuesday that it has acquired 14 drones that will be soon be deployed across the city during emergencies, officials said.

The NYPD’s Technical Assistance and Response Unit will be utilizing the drones to assist in rescue missions, inaccessible crime scenes and hostage situations.

“As the largest municipal police department in the United States, the NYPD must always be willing to leverage the benefits of new and always-improving technology,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said in a statement. “Our new (unmanned aircraft system) program is part of this evolution.”

The NYPD enjoyed a November to remember as monthly crime figures indicated that 2018 could set a record low for crimes in a calendar year.

The safest November in modern NYPD history ended last week with a 5% overall decrease in crime compared with November 2017. Police said the drop was spurred by a 15.8% drop in burglaries and an 11.8% plunge in robberies.

“The NYPD has once again done what a lot of people said was impossible,” said Mayor de Blasio. “(Last year) was a record year for lower crime — and the NYPD is starting to surpass that record.”

Critics of the NYPD’s handling of disciplinary cases want a panel reviewing the system to give the task to an outside agency.

But moving NYPD administrative trials to the Office of Trials and Hearings — which conducts hearings for all city workers except police officers and teachers — would face multiple hurdles, including either a legal change, or deputizing the agency’s judge to preside over NYPD trials.

NEW YORK (WABC) --Bodega owners met with NYPD officials Monday to discuss new safety options and came away pleased with the result.

Among the things members of United Bodegas of America (UBA) asked for were panic buttons that would allow store owners to contact police immediately in the event of an crime; and video cameras with direct, live links to nearby police stations.

They also asked for NYPD officials to notify bodega owners of gang-related activity in their neighborhoods; more frequent neighborhood patrols; and basic training in how to handle situations that turn violent.

Women generally experience more forms of harassment than men and it’s costing us: Data from a new study shows that, on average, women pay more to get around New York City than men do due to safety reasons. Looks like there’s a Pink Tax on transportation, too.

A new study from the New York University Rudin Center for Transportation suggests that the median extra transportation cost per month for women, due to safety reasons, is between $26 to $50.

The close of the third quarter saw homicides in New York City spike by six percent over the same period last year, despite a relatively safe summer and a small drop in overall serious crime from 2017, according to the latest NYPD statistics.

Homicides through Sept. 30 totaled 228 compared to 215 in the same period for 2017, a year that ended with 292 homicide and manslaughter cases — a record low for killings in the modern era of police record keeping.

— NY Times: “Here in New York, a range of changes in the criminal justice system will touch every corner of the city — from those caught smoking marijuana on the street to neighborhoods that may soon host new jails.”

— NY Times: “Nearly two decades ago, in a Manhattan subway station, a mentally ill man shoved Kendra Webdale, a promising young writer, to her death in front of an oncoming N train. It was a horrific crime that shocked the city and the nation, highlighting deep flaws in the care of seriously mentally ill people and spurring a wave of state laws that use court orders to move them into outpatient treatment.”

— NY Daily News: “Outraged community leaders on Monday demanded action after five people overdosed during the weekend on the same Brooklyn streetcorner where more than 100 users have fallen victim to a crippling K2 epidemic.”

— NY Post: “A Bronx teen who became the poster boy for citywide bail reform could have his police misconduct lawsuit against the city tossed as soon as this week — because no lawyer wants to touch it.”

— New York Post: Erase your pot past — by going to church! Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Friday announced a first-of-its-kind program that gives people with low-level marijuana convictions the opportunity to have them expunged from their records forever.

— NY Times: “Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is expected to announce next week that his office will vacate misdemeanor marijuana warrants dating to 1978. In Brooklyn, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is going further, offering people with low-level convictions for marijuana possession the chance to have them vacated and the underlying charges dismissed.”

— New York Post: One teen stabbed another with a hair pick, an enraged mom pulled a knife on a school safety agent, and 12 weapons were seized at security checkpoints on a violent first day of classes in the Big Apple on Wednesday, officials and sources said.

— AM NY: “New York City’s long hot summer of 2018 turned out to be cooler when it came to serious crime. July and August of 2018 were the safest summer months in modern city history in terms of homicides and shootings, officials said Tuesday.”

— New York Post: “Several videos of people berating and taunting our police officers have recently appeared on social media. For the public, viewing this ignorant spite might come as a shock. But for...”

— New York Post: “Mayor de Blasio on Monday told loudmouths subjecting NYPD officers to brazen bouts of nasty verbal abuse to “knock it off,’’ but police insiders dismissed the support as “too little...”

— CBS News: “First on 'CBS This Morning,' a new report released Friday reveals how some of America's police academies are addressing racial bias in the wake of controversies over shootings and the use of force.”

— New York Daily News: “An NYPD sergeant was left stammering as a man began cursing him out inside his Harlem police precinct, according to a new viral video showcasing the continued disrespect of police.”

— New York Post: “A self-described “schizophrenic” threw a brick at his Washington Heights neighbor this week and lunged at her with a knife, yet was back on the street less than 24 hours after cops picked him up.”

— New York Law Journal: “A Manhattan judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release a trove of documents from the case of Ramarley Graham, who was shot and killed in 2012 by an officer who has since left the department.”

— New York Post: "Dozens of widows of NYPD officers slain in the line of duty joined the department’s largest union Tuesday to demand that the government fix a loophole that lets paroled cop-killers back on the streets."

— NBC New York: “"There has to be a culture of consequence," said Mayor de Blasio. "There has to be a realization that anyone who thinks that they can get away with having an illegal gun in New York City, that that is not going to work."

— Wall Street Journal: Politicians and advocates in major cities are scrutinizing police departments for the way they label and track suspected gang members, saying the methods lack oversight and unfairly expose minorities to the criminal justice system.

Police departments in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago use databases that include thousands of people, mostly minorities, some of whom haven’t been arrested for a crime.

More than a half-dozen Trinitarios gang members went berserk in a city jail on Saturday, smashing windows and toppling furniture after one of them learned a friend would be moved to another facility, sources told The Post.

The mini-riot — on the 800-bed Vernon C. Bain Center jail barge — was so violent that a correction officer tried to break it up using pepper spray, but wound up fleeing for her life, the sources said.

THREE WEEKS INTO his new job as commanding officer of Manhattan’s 20th precinct, Captain Timothy J. Malin stared at a map on his computer screen, puzzled. It showed his jurisdiction carved up by streets and parks, with the southern edge encased in an ominous shade of red.

For decades, the New York Police Department has used real-time statistics to chart spikes in violence and calibrate police activity across the city. This map, however, displayed not crime data but something new in the arsenal of police metrics: public approval. The crimson on Malin’s map indicated that some residents in his precinct, the Upper West Side—one of New York City’s wealthiest and safest neighborhoods—reported feeling little trust in his officers. It was Malin’s job to figure out why. “I look at that, and I am like, ‘Okay? What’s causing this?’” he said.

The NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office are locked in a bitter standoff over what information cops will turn over to prosecutors, and when and how that handoff happens.

The DA wants systematic electronic access to police disciplinary records and investigative files, including witness reports, to understand cases’ strengths and weaknesses, drop charges when appropriate, and, when the law requires, share evidence with defense attorneys. The police say they’re already being perfectly responsive, and claim Vance is overreaching dangerously by trying to get an unfiltered pipeline into the most sensitive files.

An unarmed black man holding a cellphone, Stephon Clark, is fatally shot in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento and residents ask whether the officers only saw race when pulling their triggers 20 times.

Saheed Vassell, a mentally ill black man waving a pistol-shaped metal car part at pedestrians, is gunned down by police officers on a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the outrage focuses on whether deep-seated prejudices fueled the quick use of deadly force.

While explicit bias remains part of the fabric of life in the United States, elected leaders and chiefs of police have increasingly focused on what is often called implicit bias, inherently unintentional yet more pervasive.

Golden — a Brooklyn Republican whose political shenanigans at the end of session in Albany last month helped deep-six widely supported plans to reup, much less expand, life-saving speed cameras on city streets — succumbed to political pressure Wednesday, finally urging Senate leader John Flanagan to convene a special session to right the wrong before the cams go dark July 25

An 8 percent jump in homicides citywide is troubling; more worrisome is that it’s driven by a nearly 65 percent spike in the Bronx. We trust the NYPD to turn the numbers around — but can only hope it will have the full support of local politicians.

To be fair, the percentage increase is so big mostly because New York’s Finest have brought crime so far down over the last quarter-century: The 51 homicides in the Bronx in the first six months of the year is up just 20 over the same period in 2017.

Mayor de Blasio attended a police-statistics briefing Tuesday detailing the city’s gang-driven murder spike, and invited two fellow pols — who blindsided the NYPD’s top cop with gripes about crime in their districts.

Just as Police Commissioner James O’Neill opened up to media questions about his department’s latest stats — including an 8.1 percent rise in slayings — de Blasio interrupted to turn the mic over to his guests.

NY Post: “New York started following San Francisco’s lead in 2016 when Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced his office would no longer be prosecuting offenses such as public urination. Both cities have accepted that they’ll continue to have a large number of people living on their streets and inevitably using their sidewalks as a toilet.”

The Crime Report: “New York City will spend $1.8 million this year to roll out “mobile trauma units” — buses filled with counselors and peacekeepers — to crime scenes throughout the city in an effort to ease tensions in communities after acts of gun violence”

NY Daily News: “A training curriculum could turn witnesses to crimes into proactive good Samaritans, a Bronx City Council member proposed Monday in the wake of allegations that bodega workers didn’t do enough to help a teen who was dragged from their store and fatally stabbed.”

NY Daily News: “Gang violence is ugly in any form, but the killing of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was an unspeakably savage act. The images of him being dragged from a store and then repeatedly stabbed and hacked are the definition of horror. The depraved indifference to this boy’s life is made all the worse in that the child who the gang was destroying wasn’t even their intended target.”

NY Post: “The Bronx teen who became a cause célèbre for bail reform has been arrested — for the 12th time — for driving offenses, sources told The Post on Monday. Pedro Hernandez was nabbed Sunday night at Jerome Avenue and 170th Street in the Bronx for weaving in and out of traffic, sources said.”

NY Post: “NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill called on Bronx residents to help clear the borough’s streets of bloodthirsty gangbangers — like the Trinitarios thugs behind the “unspeakable” murder of young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz.”

NY Daily News: “Let there be no misunderstanding, now that young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz lies in the earth, the blood let from his neck like an animal: The slaughter of a promising 15-year-old Bronx boy known as Junior at the hands of criminal gang members who mistook him for their intended target cannot be left to melt in the heat of passions over the proper reach of the criminal justice system into the lives of young men of color.”